Kate Dehnert is a writer/actor/improvisor whose work has earned rave reviews and sold out seats, but she’s never eaten 50 hotdogs in one go. She’s written and acted in TV, radio, theatre, web-series, podcasts, and on her poorly managed Instagram. But again, has she really done anything if she hasn’t eaten 50 hotdogs at once?

In 2022, she landed a year long bursary at BBC Studios as a Staff Comedy Writer in London, writing on a wide variety of programs for BBC Radio 4 and developing her own shows. In addition, she was banned from the office kitchen after spilling a large glass of mucky water while practicing at lunch, arguing, ‘Ya gotta dip the dogs in water to soften the bun so they go down quicker.’

“Bizarre, brave, daring, probably dangerous, but most of all smart and very funny. The dawning of a psychedelicomic superstar.” ★★★★½ - The Herald Sun

In Australia, you can watch her work in ABC’s Get Krack!n, Paramount+’s and Channel Ten’s The Project, and Binge’s The Last Year of Television + The Back Side of Television. Kate also created her own sketch podcast called Loner which was in the Australian iTunes Top 10 (as though that means anything), and she features in 20 to 1: Sorest Hotdog Eating Competition Fails as ‘Woman Screaming At An Official Because She Was Placed In The 10AM Slot And That Was “Too Close To Breakfast”’.

Via time machine, you can watch and listen to her perform live comedy at several Melbourne International Comedy Festivals, Melbourne Fringes, on Triple J, ABC Radio, at Splendour in the Grass and Women of Letters. She’s also a previous recipient of a Moosehead Award, was a regular performer at Improv and Character Comedy nights, and guest on beloved web-series, Gamey Gamey Game. In addition, she has received numerous complaints that she ‘reeks of hotdogs’ and ‘half eaten dogs drop out of her pockets when she sits’.