Anisa Nandaula

Anisa Nandaula (born 8 July 1998) is an Australian comedian, poet, and author. She was born on 8 July 1998 in Kampala, Uganda. Her mother and siblings moved to Rockhampton, Queensland when she was seven, and a year later they relocated to Brisbane. She graduated from Runcorn State High School.

After high school, Nandaula studied law and political science at Griffith University, during which time she began to perform slam poetry. In 2016, she was the Queensland Poetry Slam champion, and she has performed at Splendour in the Grass, the Sydney Opera House, and the Woodford Folk Festival. She was runner-up at the Australian Poetry Slam in 2016, and won the 2018 Queensland Poetry XYZ Innovation in Spoken Word Prize. She co-founded the poetry organisation Voices of Colour in 2016, and her debut poetry collection, Melanin Garden, was published in 2017.

She said her transition from poetry to comedy during the COVID-19 pandemic made her feel "reborn", and likened the reading of poetry to performing stand-up comedy. She created and co-wrote the 6-episode short series Let's Break Up, based on a stage show. Nandaula opened for Chelsea Handler during Handler's Little Big Bitch tour in Australia in 2024. In 2025, she performed her first comedy show, You Can't Say That, in Adelaide and at the Brisbane Comedy Festival, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the New Zealand International Comedy Festival, and the Sydney Comedy Festival. She appeared in Taskmaster Australia in 2026, and performed a comedy show, No Small Talk, in 2026.