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Angella Dravid won this year’s Billy T Award for her show Down The Rabbit Hole, based on her time in a UK prison. She’s pictured at her Auckland flat last year with fellow comedian Melanie Bracewell, ahead of the duo’s Comedy Festival debut.

That washing line is in my backyard, in the flat that I’m living in now. There’s several of us in a massive house which used to be a rest home. When internationals come over and ask me where I’m staying, I tell them I live in a rest home, and we get a new flatmate every time someone dies. They think I’m quite serious. I am kind of serious. There hasn’t... Oh, there has been one death. But it’s a pretty lively place most of the time. We got my flatmate to take photographs of us because the deadline was the following day. We were trying to find a background. It was either a shack, weeds, or in front of the washing line.

Not many people know I can do the splits. I did gymnastics when I was in primary school. But I’ve