Returning to Brighton for a bumper festival edition of The Glitter Project, this event features an INDUSTRY PANEL with experts covering comedy production, performance, media, mental health and wellbeing. This will be followed by a facilitated SPEED MENTORING session as part of the event programme. Early booking is recommended!
The panel will be hosted by Funny Women founder, Lynne Parker, as part of The Glitter Project – A Safe Place supported by funds raised from The Glitter Challenge. This takes place in partnership with Komedia, home of Funny Women’s longest running pro-gig in the UK.
Sarah ‘Scoop’ Cooper, founder of Pitchycoo, works with creative businesses to get their work into new rooms and in front of the right people. She brings a commercial lens to creative work, sharing practical tools, simple systems and fresh thinking to open up new opportunities and help people move their ideas forward.
Zoe Paskett is an arts journalist, specialising in comedy. She formerly covered comedy for the Evening Standard and wrote for Funny Women, and now runs LMAOnaise Comedy, a publication focused on recommending and uplifting the best new comedy in the UK.
Lu Jackson is the tech superwoman and founder of Craic™, the leading technology hub and marketplace for the comedy industry and fans; and Craic Health, pioneering comedy-on-prescription, and connecting people via community-based comedy events and activities. Lu is also the founder of CRAFT (Comedy Representation & Artform Trust), the UK’s first dedicated national body to support the entire comedy industry ecosystem.
Nat May is a Brighton-based social media and marketing manager, with a background in film, TV and media. She began her career in commissioning at Channel 4, gaining insight into audience engagement and content strategy, before launching her own social media and marketing business eight years ago.
More panellists and mentors to be announced!
Funny Women has been supporting and developing new comedy talent at grassroots with ground-breaking Awards, workshops, courses and open mic events for over 20 years. The priority is to build confidence in female and non-binary performers, writers and creators to give them the opportunity to pursue comedy careers.
The inspiration for The Glitter Project is Jo Fletcher-Cross, who was diagnosed with a grade 4 glioblastoma brain tumour in summer 2022 on the eve of her her Edinburgh debut. Read more about this here.
