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Dr. Hannah Ballou is a performance artist, writer, and senior lecturer. Her work is feminist, sometimes autobiographical, and challenges configurations of the comic body by asking who is funny, when, how, why, and why not. She is known to work with live animals and sleeping children. She once found out she was pregnant live on stage. She is a 2022 winner of Procreate Project’s Mother Art Prize, the only international art prize awarded to women & non-binary artists with caring responsibilities. She is the force behind Marina Abramopug and neo-burlesque alter-ego Lambchop Magoo. Recent solo performance works include Shhh, The Doctor Is In, GOO:GA, and hoo:ha. She trained at the Dell’Arte School in California and holds a PhD in feminist comic performance from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.