Jeromaia Detto is a multi award winning comedian, producer and workshop facilitator currently based in Melbourne, Australia. Over the last decade, Jeromaia has become an expert in play based performance, specialising in improv and clown. He has developed a unique style that is simple, silly and extremely playful, and is passionate about creating spaces that invite collaborative audience participation, allowing audiences young and old to be lost in moments of fun and whimsy.
Jeromaia graduated from Improv Theatre Sydney (2016) , iO theatre Summer intensive in Chicago (2017) and, in France, Ecole Philippe Gaulier (2019-2021). He has also trained and performed overseas, with the Norway Clown Camp under the guidance of Jango Edwards and Spymonkey‘s Aitor Basauri and Toby Park.
Performing at DNR in Sydney | Image captured by Brendan Byrnes
Jeromaia is a national improv champion, taking out the 2019 Adelaide Fringe Maestro Competition. He is a two time Cranston Cup Theatresports Grand Finalist and has mulitple times featured as an Improv “All-Star” in Celebrity Theatresports. Over the past decade Jeromaia has been involved in a wide range of artistic projects as a performer, director and collaborator including interactive/immersive theatre, improv, sketch, clown and an array of variety shows.
Jeromaia has been teaching improv, clown and theatre across Australia and Europe since 2017. In this time he has sold out workshops in Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide and Melbourne, developing a teaching style that centres on play, freedom and honesty for performers to be challenged in a safe and supportive space. Jeromaia has worked with a range of organisations and companies, university groups, early learning centres, highschools, drama camps, private theatre groups, diability groups and various NGO’s. Internationally Jeromaia has facilitated sessions in Dubai, Germany, The Netherlands and France.
Jeromaia has collaborated with a range of internationally renowned variety shows. He has produced and performed seasons of The Lost Cabaret across Sydney, Paris, Edinbourgh, Adelaide and Melbourne, as well as online. He has also performed as an ensemble member of Stamptown Comedy in LA and Edinbourgh and Plaugue Of Idiots in Melbourne.
Currently, Jeromaia can be found on the Festival circuit touring his critically acclaimed solo clown shows ‘MUSH‘ and ‘When I Grow Up…‘ as well as a range of kids shows with his comedy partner Jon Walpole!
Cool things Jeromaia has done:
- Winner Spirit Of The Fringe Weekly Award – Adelaide Fringe 2025
- Judges Pick (Comedy) – When I Grow Up… – Melbourne Fringe 2024
- Sold out season of MUSH at Brisbane Comedy Festival 2024
- Winner Best Comedy Weekly Award for MUSH – Adelaide Fringe 2024
- Host of Strut N Fret‘s flagship circus cabaret spectacular “Blanc De Blanc: Uncorked”, on the P&O Pacific Encounter
- Sold out season of MUSH at Sydney Fringe Festival 2023
- Nominated Best Circus & Physical Theatre for MUSH – Sydney Fringe 2023
- Nominated Spirit of The Fringe – Sydney Fringe 2023
- Nominated Best Comedy for MUSH – Sydney Fringe 2022
- Nominated NIDA Emerging Artist Award (Producer) – Sydney Fringe 2022
- DylanBrand® International Premium Ambassador
- Co-Host of TheatreSports All Stars 2022 at The Enmore Theatre
- National Australian Maestro Impro Champion 2019
- ‘All Star’ for 2018 & 2019 Celebrity Theatresports
- Grand Finalist 2017 & 2018 Cranston Cup
- Runner up 2017 Sydney Golden Goose Impro Format Competition
Cool Things People Have Said About Jeromaia:
- ‘He’s fast, inventive, and, most importantly, utterly hilarious’
– ★★★★★ Binge Fringe - ‘his comedic stylings are bordering genius levels!’
– ★★★★★ See Do Eat Reveiew - ‘silly and extremely playful…definitely a must-see’
– ★★★★★ Glam Adelaide - ‘my jaw hurts so much from laughing’
– ★★★★½ Mix 103.2 Adelaide - ‘guaranteed to inspire fits of laughter’
– ★★★★½ Lilithia Reviews - ‘Detto has us totally entranced’
– ★★★★½ The Clothesline - ‘Silly, playful, fun and worth the sore cheeks from the big laughs.’
– ★★★★½ Perth Happenings - ‘a masterpiece in audience participation…each comedic moment was flawless’
– ★★★★½ Xpress Mag - ‘one of the best emerging comedians…seriously hilarious’
– ★★★★½ Weekend Notes - ‘unrelenting imagination and optimism’
– ★★★★ The Age - ‘Carefully constructed yet divinely anarchic…a masterclass in silliness’
– ★★★★ The List UK - ‘Laugh out loud moments of pure silliness.’
– ★★★★ Theatre Thoughts - ‘a raucous hour of completely bonkers comedy’
– ★★★★ The Fourth Wall - “laugh out loud moments of pure silliness”
★★★★ – Theatre Thoughts Aus - “A fantastic example of crowd work done right…outstandingly playful”
– ★★★★ Gutter Culture