Nina Oyama

Oyama began performing standup comedy at 17 years old In 2012 she was a state finalist in the Class Clowns competition That year she also performed at The Sydney Fringe as part of Barely Legal Australias Best Young Comedians alongside Neel Kolhatkar and Aaron Chen and performed on Dan Ilics FBi Radio show Oyama became a writer for the childrens sketch comedy show Youre Skitting Me and made her television debut performing standup comedy on SBS 2 in 2014 In 2017 Oyama was cast as executive assistantreceptionist Courtney Kano in the third fourth and fifth seasons of Utopia In the same year she joined the cast of ABC Comedys topical entertainment show Tonightly with Tom Ballard as a writer she also starred in the second and final series of the show in 2018 Oyama directed cowrote and costarred in The Angus Project a web series and television pilot that aired on ABC iview in 2018 Based on real events in Bathurst the series costars Angus Thompson as a sports journalist with cerebral palsy for whom Oyama becomes a friend and caregiver The show received praise for its earnest depictions of disability and regional Australia As of 2019 Oyama was regularly performing standup comedy In 2020 she starred on the Network 10 sketch comedy series Kinne Tonight and served as a scriptwriter for Michael Cusacks Adult Swim series YOLO Crystal Fantasy She codirected the film Diving In which starred an amputee swimmer and was featured in the 2020 Sydney Film Festival Also in that year Oyama received media attention for making CatPoop a trending topic on Twitter in Australia On 9 July 2024 Deadloch was renewed for a second season and it was announced that Oyama would reprise the role of Abby Matsuda On 28 October Oyama was named for the animated film The Pout Pout Fish On 4 June 2025 Oyama was announced as part of the cast for the series Gnomes