[4][5] Lardner co-wrote and performed in Wolf Creek, The Musical, which won BankSA's Best Emerging Comedy Show Award at Adelaide Fringe.
Lardner's 2016 solo show Life Mechanic led to her receiving the Sydney Comedy Festival's Best Newcomer Award as joint winner[13] and being nominated for Melbourne International Comedy Festival's Best Newcomer award.
[17] In 2018 Lardner's show I Love Skeleton won the Pinder Prize at Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
[21] Also in 2019, Lardner performed alongside Tom Walker in We Mustn't, which received Sydney Comedy Festival's Director's Choice Award.
She has been involved in LGBT+ awareness initiatives, such as a Triple J interview about her parents' responses when she came out to them,[26] and creating a satirical public service announcement in October 2018, addressing recent national debate about the rights of religious schools regarding LGBT+ employees and students.