Skit Box is an Australian comedy troupe based in Sydney and Los Angeles. Consisting of actresses Adele Vuko, Sarah Bishop and comedian Greta Lee Jackson, Skit Box was born in 2012 when the three girls decided to join forces and create some twisted, female driven comedy.
Within three months of their initial meeting the girls had developed, written and shot several sketches involving a range of dark and colourful characters which would become the basis of the first season of their online webseries.
Since launching Skit Box has been featured in Inside Film, FilmInk, Cleo, Splitsider, College Humor and have been featured on the front page of Funny or Die. In 2013 Skit Box began branching out into other projects in film, television and music. In April, their short film THE ARTIST played as part of the official selection at the LA Comedy Shorts Festival, they were commissioned to develop a comedy sketch which aired on television on Christmas Day as part of the ABC2 Xmas Quickie series, and they launched their first song Daddy Issues from their musical alter egos SEX TAPE.
In 2014, Skit Box appeared on the ABC as part of the Fresh Blood comedy initiative with Screen Australia and ABC iview, and their short film THE POLYGAMIST has been selected to screen at several festivals including the St Kilda Film Festival in Melbourne, Rottofest in Western Australia, the New York Independent Film Festival, the Urban Media Makers Festival in Georgia and the Iron Mule Comedy Film Festival in New York where it took out the Judges' Favourite Award.
In 2015, THE POLYGAMIST went on to play at Flickerfest Film Festival in Sydney, and Skit Box have had their first TV pilot commissioned, a sketch comedy show which they wrote, directed and starred in called WHAM BAM THANK YOU MA'AM. The pilot will on ABC TV in mid 2015.
Skit Box have also made their mark in the live comedy scene. The girls were the recipients of the Best Comedy Award at the Sydney Fringe Festival last year for their live performance, “Skit Box Presents.”
Adele Vuko...
Adele Vuko has a strong background in acting, writing, directing and production. In 2014 she made her TV directorial debut for ABC 2 Fresh Blood’s In A Woman’s World as one third of her comedy collective Skit Box. Wham Bam Thank You Ma’am , their pilot TV show as part of the phase 2 of Fresh Blood, will feature her directing, acting and writing. Several sketches from the pilot, including New Recruit and Girls One Upping , have featured in worldwide news and blogs. Skit Box are also behind the viral hits Activewear and Bad Blood Lip Sync . 2015 also marked the debut of Skit Box’s live stage production Skit Box Presents – which Adele co-wrote, co-starred and co-directed, also taking the ‘Genre Excellence’ award for the Sydney Fringe Comedy Festival. Adele was cast as actor and writer in the ensemble sketch comedy show This Is Littleton and was nominated for an AWGIE Award. Her sketch comedy experience stretches to other shows like The Elegant Gentleman’s Guide to Knife Fighting and Legally Brown . Other Television credits include guest roles in a new ABC comedy for 2016 called The Letdown, Deadly Women , and a main cast role in Underbelly Razor . In 2015 she was the female
lead in the genre horror/comedy Me and My Mates Vs The Zombie Apocalypse alongside Australian Comedian Jim Jeffries, which featured in the Sitges Fillm festival in both Spain and the USA. She was also in the Aussie romantic comedy Not Suitable For Children , starring Ryan Kwanten in 2013. Her short film credits range from the female lead in the drama Farid in the West, which made the Cleveland International Films Festival, Palm Springs International Film Festival, California Independent Film Festival and Australia’s Flickerfest Film Festival. Her on stage directing began with Short + Sweet, the world’s largest short play festival. Her plays went on from the Sydney based festival to win galas, and be produced in Short + Sweet festivals around the world including Dubai, Mumbai and Bangalore as well as the Fringe Comedy Festival in London.
Greta Lee Jackson...
Greta Lee Jackson is an Australian comedian, actress, writer and director originally from Auckland, New Zealand. Greta made her television directorial debut in 2014 with In a Woman's World on ABC 2
as one third of the comedy collective Skit Box. Greta also starred in ABC2's Crazy Bastards and Axis of Awesome in 2014 and The Elegant Gentleman's Guide to Knife Fighting in 2013. She is recently back from a 2 year stint in Los Angeles, having performed regularly at iconic venues such as The Comedy Store, Flappers and Inside Jokes. She also appeared on Walk of Shame Shuttle (VH1) and regularly as a true crime expert on Snapped: Killer Couples (Oxygen). She has also studied improv with both the Upright Citizens Brigade and Groundlings in 2014.
Sarah Bishop...
Sarah Bishop is an actress and film maker originally from Far North Queensland. In 2015 she appeared in two of the five Fresh Blood pilots that aired on ABC iView. She is the female lead in the sex comedy Bedhead ,and is one of the creators, writers, directors and stars of the sketch comedy show Wham Bam Thank You Ma’am . She is best known for her work as one third of the all female comedy trio Skit Box who recently created the viral video sensations Activewear and Bad Blood Lip Sync , as well as the Fresh Blood webseries In A Woman’s World on ABC iView and ABC1, and the
Skit Box Xmas Quickie sketch on ABC2. She is heavily involved in independent film as a producer and actress and her work includes the short films Emu directed by Kacie Anning (Flickerfest), The Polygamist directed by Craig Melville (Tropfest Shortlist, Flickerfest, St Kilda Film Festival), The Keeper directed by James Chappell (Vimeo Staff Pick) and Bombay Beach directed by Tom McKeith (Open Road Film Festival). She will next be seen in three feature films due for release in 2016 including the lead in the thriller feature Crushed alongside Les Hill and Roxane Wilson, directed by Megan Riakos the film will play at Montreal World Film Festival, Napa Valley Film Festival, Miami International Film Festival, and has already earned Sarah a nomination for Best Actress at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival. She also joined the main cast of the horror feature Red Christmas directed by AACTA award winning director Craig Anderson, which was filmed in late 2015 alongside American Scream Queen Dee
Wallace ( E.T, The Howling ). And finally she will appear alongside Academy Award winner Keisha Castle Hughes ( Whale Rider, Game of Thrones ) in the Australian/New Zealand feature Find Your Voice . Other screen credits include Deadbeat Dads , The Astronaut , Wicked Love , Bondi Hipsters and The Justice Lease . On stage she has appeared in Skit Box Presents (Best New Comedy at the 2015 Sydney Fringe Festival), In The Air Tonight (Sydney Comedy Festival & Old Fitzroy Theatre), 661 (Adelaide Fringe Festival) and Bustown written by Lachlan Phillpott (Australian
Theatre for Young People). She has trained at ATYP and the NIDA Summer Program in Australia, and studied improv and comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade in Los Angeles.
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