About
Libby Trainor Parker is an MC for hire in Adelaide, SA.
Libby Trainor Parker has MC'd weddings, product launches, variety shows, conferences, summits and street parties, and she reads a room before she opens her mouth. Adelaide based. Award winning cabaret performer, comedian, journalist, and a high school teacher before all that, which is a useful set of skills for keeping a run sheet honest and an audience awake. Warm and funny, but the event still finishes on time. She speaks too, on the arts, health, motherhood as a step and foster parent, imposter syndrome and women in business. Her wins include the 2025 Spirit of the Fringe award and the 2023 Women in Innovation Arts award. She sings as well, if you want music alongside the hosting.
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The show
Libby keeps an event running to time, and does it warmly enough that nobody feels managed. She's funny, she's easy with a crowd, and she'll hold your run sheet together while your guests think they're just having a good night. Award winning too, with the Spirit of the Fringe award in 2025, the Women in Innovation Arts award in 2023, SA Woman of the Year Allrounder in 2021 and a Best Cabaret win at the Adelaide Fringe. A good MC is the difference between an event that flows and one that stalls.
On the day
Genuinely just a microphone and an audience. If the venue has no sound, she can bring her own PA instead, so a room with nothing in it isn't a problem. Worth mentioning which situation you're in when you enquire so she knows whether to load the gear.
Performance options
Two ways to book Libby. She can host and sing, so the music and the MC work come from one person and you are not coordinating two suppliers across the same run sheet. Or she can take the hosting plus the event management side, keeping the night on track from the running order through to the finish. Which one suits depends on what your event already has covered, so tell her the shape of the day when you enquire and she will sort out the rest.
Insurance and paperwork
Public liability insured
Working with Children Check
