Don’t Panic is Kate Pinchuck’s award-winning comedy show about navigating mental health, being the daughter of two psychologists, and how incessantly trying to fix yourself can make everything worse.We’re all about doing “the work”, we’re all on our healing journeys. The show is about fixing your inherently flawed self, reparenting your inner child, forgiving your parents for doing their best (which turned out to not be very good actually). It’s about trying not to lie to your therapist so she likes you more, while still telling the truth enough so she can help you stop people-pleasing. It’s about how everyone who identifies as a people-pleaser doesn’t seem to be very good at it. And how maybe, if you spend the whole mental health walk being mean to yourself, you shouldn’t be surprised it’s not improving your mental health.Kate Pinchuck is the daughter of two psychologists, a gold star patient of many more, and she’s just trying her f**king best to do self-compassion even though secretly she doesn’t think she deserves it. That’s just a core belief though, you can totally work with that. Also the meds should help. With this level of experience as a patient, Kate is basically an unqualified qualified pseudo-therapist whose obsession with fixing herself sometimes spills over into trying to solve her audience’s problems too. Don’t Panic was awarded the prestigious Standard Bank Ovation Award at the 2024 National Arts Festival in Makhanda, South Africa (Africa’s biggest arts festival). Cue Media reviewed it as “hilariously relatable…[Kate] effortlessly turned life challenges that most people would find to be taboo into comedic gold.” Kate is an award-winning and SAFTA-nominated comedian, actor and writer. She is a multiple Standard Bank Ovation award-winner for her comedy and theatre work. Her debut comedy show Trash Mouth was described by Netwerk24 as “smart, challenging and provocative…bullseye laughing potion.” Kate’s comedy has been featured on Comedy Central Africa, national TV channels SABC2 and SABC3, as well as South Africa’s premier streaming service Showmax. She was also a subject of the 2023 documentary series Behind the Funny, highlighting the lives of 10 of South Africa’s top comedians.Her comedic style has been described as “honest, unabashed, sharp, and engaging.”
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