Online Content Tips & Tricks: Getting the Funding with Lee Naimo and Jane Watt

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  Lee Naimo

  Lee Naimo is a former professional writer, actor, comedian and now government employee. As one third of musical comedy troupe The Axis of Awesome he has toured the world and written songs and sketches that have achieved hundreds of millions of views online. Over their ten year history the Axis of Awesome built an army of fans worldwide, in part due to their hugely popular Four Chords song, which itself has over 100 million hits on YouTube. Since 2018 he has worked for Screen Australia as a Senior Investment Manager in the Online department, where he has supported hugely successful online content such as Sarah’s Channel, Content, All My Friends Are Racist, Over and Out, Glennridge Secondary College, At Home Alone Together and many more. He is also responsible for setting up initiatives such as Pitcher Perfect with VidCon, Digital Originals with SBS and Every Voice, which is the first ever Australian partnership with TikTok and New Zealand on Air.
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  Jane Watt

  Jane is an actor, writer and comedian. She trained at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), graduating with an Advanced Diploma (Acting) in 2014. Theatre credits include: Godspell (Hayes Theatre C.), Spamalot! (Australia tour + Hayes Theatre season) (One Eyed Man), The Cripple of Inishmaan (Mad March Hare); Gypsy (Luckiest/One Eyed Man);. On the small screen Jane appeared in The War that Changed Us (ABC/Electric Pictures), and she recently starred in the multi-award-winning feature film, The Greenhouse (Everyone We Know). In 2018, Jane toured her original comedy and stand-up shows Gate 64 and Luxury Split Bill to the Melbourne and Sydney Comedy Festivals, then on to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and United Solo Festival in New York. Jane was awarded the 2020 Equity Comedy Scholarship where she had the pleasure of spending 5 months of 2022 training in improv and sketch at The Second City, Chicago. Jane is currently touring an original sketch show ‘Jazz or a Bucket of Blood’ with journalist/comedian/fellow-country-mouse, Ange Lavoipierre to the Adelaide Fringe, Melbourne Comedy, Sydney Comedy, and Edinburgh Fringe festivals for 2023. Jane and Ange also co-wrote and starred in two seasons of the absurdist, online sketch series ‘Impostors’. Jane teaches and performs with Improv Theatre Sydney (ITS) and Baker’s Eight musical Improv troupe, and was the host of the monthly improv show Bang Bang Rodeo for Red Line Productions at The Old Fitz Theatre. Jane is a proud member of MEAA.