Jill Edwards Comedy Workshops

General information

Jill Edwards stand-up courses are the most established comedy courses in the country. Jill's stand-up comedy courses have a proven and continuous track record of success. Over 20 years of teaching stand-up Jill''s trained some of the UK's top comics, including Shappi Khorsandi, Hal Cruttenden, Shazia Mirza, Simon Evans, Francesca Martinez, Steve Day, Jimmy Carr and his agent Hannah Chambers. Brighton's own Seann Walsh, Ingrid Dahle, David Jordan, Paul McCaffrey, Angela Barnes and Romesh Ranganathan. Check out their Testimonials on Jill Edwards Comedy Workshops website: www.jill-edwards.co.uk

Jill Edwards blazed the trail over twenty years ago by creating the original groundbreaking UK Stand-Up Comedy Course, which Time Out's Malcolm Hay hailed as "the place to go for anyone with serious hopes of getting their act together." In 2005, Jill Edwards created Comic Boom comedy club and the highly acclaimed and the original Brighton stand-up comedy courses, based at Brighton's multiple award winning comedy venue the Komedia, Brighton. Jill works with the Komedia to fulfill a remit to facilitate and encourage new comic talent to emerge from Brighton and across the country.

Jill is at the centre of the thriving Brighton comedy scene, most of the established local comedy clubs are run by her stand-up comedy course graduates. Jill Edwards stand-up comedy course graduates created the original "buzz" about the great new comics coming out of Brighton. They continue to do Jill and the Komedia proud, regularly winning awards, competitions and breaking through on television.

Jill Edwards has been working professionally in the comedy industry the whole of her adult life. During her years as an established successful stand-up comic - and as one half of comedy duo PEP TALK - Jill toured nationwide, including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, appearing regularly on the national and London comedy circuit at all the main venues, as well as in radio, television and film. She's also a professional writer represented by MBA Literary Agency.

Jill has a wealth of ongoing knowledge and experience in the comedy business. She's involved in creating and judging national new act competitions. Jill has Chaired a panel at the International Comedy Conference and been a panelist for the Chortle Comedy Conference. Jill was the BBC's chosen Comedy Coach in the South for their "Comic Relief" project. She mentored Brighton's BBC Radio Sussex presenter Neil Pringle and appeared in BBC One's documentary about the project "Stand Up for Comic Relief." Jill taught the stand-up comedy courses in Brighton and London for the BBC New Comedy Awards.

Jill scours the country to find the most exciting, original and fresh comedians for Comic Boom at Komedia, as well as for international gigs and one-off gigs including BBC South East's "Children in Need" benefit gig at the Trinity Theatre. Jill brings her insider knowledge and experience of the comedy industry across the board to all her comedy courses.

For information on Jill Edwards Stand-Up Comedy Courses or to book a place online go to: www.jill-edwards.co.uk