Keep your voices down, everyone: Nazeem Hussain is touring a new stand-up hour in 2027 called I Am Being Calm!
Nazeem Hussain’s I Am Being Calm! opens at Adelaide’s Rhino Room on 16 March and finishes on the Gold Coast on 18 September. That’s 19 venues across Australia and New Zealand over six months. Melbourne gets by far the longest stay, with a season at the Athenaeum Theatre for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival from 25 March to 18 April. After that, he heads out to Bunjil Place in Narre Warren on 28 May, then plays back-to-back nights in Frankston and Geelong on 11 and 12 June.
Hussain insists he is entirely composed, and he’d like the audience to stay composed too. The new hour itself is built on stories and characters, with nothing filtered out. It follows I’d Like to Tell You About Some Jokes, the biggest tour of his career, which finishes up at Brisbane Powerhouse on 15 November.
Nazeem Hussain: I Am Being Calm!
- 16 to 20 March: Rhino Room, Adelaide
- 20 March: Howling Owl, Adelaide
- 25 March to 18 April: Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne International Comedy Festival
- 29 April to 1 May: Regal Theatre, Perth
- 6 May: The Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, Penrith
- 7 to 9 May: Enmore Theatre, Sydney
- 14 May: SkyCity Theatre, Auckland
- 28 May: Bunjil Place, Narre Warren
- 29 May: Llewellyn Hall, Canberra
- 11 June: Frankston Arts Centre, Frankston
- 12 June: Costa Hall, Geelong
- 26 June: Norwood Concert Hall, Adelaide
- 23 July: Anita’s Theatre, Thirroul
- 24 July: Newcastle City Hall, Newcastle
- 27 and 28 August: The Princess Theatre, Brisbane
- 3 September: Theatre Royal, Hobart
- 4 September: The Albert Hall, Launceston
- 17 September: The Events Centre, Caloundra
- 18 September: HOTA, Gold Coast
Stay up to date with what’s happening in and around Melbourne here.
Separated at Birth, the six-part ABC comedy Hussain created and stars in, landed in November and is his first narrative series. He plays Sameer, a paramedic whose wife asks for a divorce in the delivery room moments after their first child is born, with Urzila Carlson as Donna, the colleague who ends up as his housemate. The show started shooting around Melbourne in February with backing from VicScreen’s Victorian Production Fund.
Melbourne comedy crowds have followed him since his Fear of a Brown Planet days with Aamer Rahman, and he won Best Newcomer at the Comedy Festival. He’s picked up two Helpmann Award nominations for Best Comedy Performer and sold out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and London’s Soho Theatre. His Netflix special, Nazeem Hussain: Public Frenemy, was filmed at Just for Laughs in Montreal and released worldwide in 2019. On TV, he made his name with the SBS series Legally Brown, years before turning up on Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont Spelling Bee.
Presales start at 11am local time on 12 November, and you can register for Live Nation’s on its website now. General tickets follow at 12pm local time on 13 November, and the Athenaeum season is recommended for ages 15 and up.
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