Tim ‘Rosso’ Ross is one of the Australian entertainment industry’s true multi-talented performers. He’s had unprecedented success in stand-up comedy, radio, acting, writing, presenting, music and more recently as a social commentator.

In recent years, Tim has been active in spreading his enthusiasm for design and architecture with audiences all across the country. This year he will be presenting the two-part series Streets of Your Town (ABC), exploring the buildings, histories and stories behind Australia’s suburbs.

It was in 2013 that Tim unleashed his talents into this new, uncharted territory with his unique stand-up show ‘Man about the House’. The show mixes storytelling, stand-up comedy, design, history and music, and travels to sell-out audiences in iconic, modernist houses and buildings across Australia, New Zealand and the United States – including Sydney’s Harry Seidler Penthouse during the 2015 Spectrum Festival. The unique show won the prestigious National Trust Award in 2014. This year, Man about the House has seasons in Venice in the Australian Pavilion for the Architecture Biennale and for the London Architecture Festival.

This interest in architecture has led to Tim speaking at The 50’s and 60’s House Symposium (Museum of Sydney) Home Series talks (Government House), Sydney Design Week, and he has recently become the ambassador for The Historic Houses Trust Sydney Open. In 2012 he became a member of Creative Services Advisory Committee for the Historic Houses Trust. If that weren’t already enough, Tim also happens to be an accomplished writer, championing all things architecture and design for established publications like Habitus Magazine, Smith Journal, Rolling Stone, The (Sydney) Magazine, Men’s Style Australia as well as his best-seller Mum Had a Kingswood (2010) and The Rumpus Room (2016, forthcoming).