Dating Disasters is about the many misgivings of momentous meetings, raunchy rendezvous and cataclysmic love affairs that happen when we attempt to date.
It is a verbatim cabaret, that features anonymous stories gathered from our audience and weaved with like-a-version music hits. Dating is something that all adults typically endure and usually have an experience worth forgetting – or is it?! This hilarious cabaret illustrates how love can go wrong and the way to survive it!
Dating Disasters was borne from- you guessed it- as series of horrendous hookups from Karen Lee Roberts’ past! She, Tammy Linde, Laine Loxlea-Danann and Elise Greig began devleoping the show in 2025 and then the show featured at Pip Theatre later that year, and Adelaide Fringe in 2026!
It has grown into a hilarious journey of misguided love, with great music and lots of laughs both on and off stage.
Have a great show!
Karen Lee Roberts
Writer & performer
Karen Lee Roberts is an artist living with and surviving bipolar disorder. Her work aims to convey social and emotional messages to her audience on prevalent topics, creating meaning whilst entertaining.
She has created and written the show Dating Disasters, under the dramaturgy of Elise Greig. She has performed extensively internationally and throughout Australia in various productions. Wilbur the Optical Whale her children’s show, won a Matilda Award, two Adelaide Fringe Awards, a Perth Fringe World Award and a Sydney Fringe Award with indelabilityarts.
The All-Abilities QLD Government video The No Pile, which she featured in with Khemistry, also won three awards in the Brisbane Art Director’s Club Awards. Intimate Space, which she performed in with Restless Dance, won a Ruby Award.
Karen also won the Access Arts Achievement Award to develop Sex & Other Philosophies. She has toured extensively independently and with indelabilityarts in various productions such as Wilbur, Chameleon and Sex & Other Philosophies and performed in top festivals across the country. Karen writes all her own shows and other, original music.
Tammy Sarah Linde
Director & performer
Tammy Sarah Linde is a seasoned creative with over a decade of experience in the performing arts industry. She has a keen interest in storytelling and creating safe, enriching experiences for artists to collaborate within.
Her directing experience includes Empty Chair (2025 YMAS/Phoenix After Dark), I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (2024 STG), Company (2024 Phoenix Ensemble), Honk! The Musical (2024 LRPA), Hedonism’s Second Album (2023 Left of Right Theatre Co.), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (2023 Savoyards), Little Women the Musical (2022 LRPA), Anne of Green Gables (2021 LRPA), Ladies in Black (2019 IMTC – Qld Amateur Premiere), Big Fish (2018 Phoenix Ensemble – Qld Premiere), When the Rain Stops Falling (2017 That Prod Co. – Assistant) and Sunday in the Park with George (2016 IMTC – Queensland Premiere).
As a multidisciplinary, award-winning artist based in Meanjin-Brisbane with a Bachelor of Creative Arts from the University of Southern Queensland and a proud member of MEAA, Tammy has a range of skills in addition to directing including performance for theatre and film, voiceover narration, writing and producing live theatre & cabaret, intimacy coordination, lighting design and production, and teaching.
Her two awards from the Anywhere Festival were for originating the role of Mrs White in Brisbane Immersive Ensemble’s “Cluedo – The Interactive Experience” and Tammy’s own original cabaret “I Dated Batman”.
Karen Lee Roberts Creative 