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Review: Greenwich Comedy Festival Part 2
Funny Women headed to Greenwich Comedy Festival to see Kiri Pritchard-McClean, Laura Smyth, Louise Young, Rhys James and Dara O Briain.
18/09/2024
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Funny Women headed to Greenwich Comedy Festival to see Kiri Pritchard-McClean, Laura Smyth, Louise Young, Rhys James and Dara O Briain.
The Funny Women team headed to Greenwich Comedy Festival to see Suzi Ruffell, Kerry Godliman, Nina Conti, Huge Davies and Ardal O’Hanlon.
Against the backdrop of a ‘revelation’ about the lack of women being booked for live gigs over the last few days, there’s a ‘revolution’ going on with sisters doing it for themselves. Nothing polarises this more than the fast-track comedy career of Serena Terry best known to her 3.5 million social media followers as ‘Mammy Banter’.
The Manchester-based Women in Comedy festival will host nearly 80 shows across the city from 3rd to 13th October. Now in its 13th year the festival goes from strength to strength in supporting cis women, and those who identify as women, in the comedy industry.
September signals the start of a new term, a fresh set of pencils, and most importantly, catching the comedy shows you missed at the Fringe on their various tours around
Every year we look with nervous anticipation for an all-female scoop in the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, so imagine our delight when Amy Gledhill was anounced as the winner of the Best Comedy Show.
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As the stars peel off the posters lining the streets of Edinburgh, it’s interesting to read the social media posts about your Fringe experiences. They are overall optimistic and star ratings take centre stage. Most of these reports feature four or five stars.
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Aussie comedian and all round funny woman, Zoe Coombs Marr, crafts comedy like a wizard armed not with a wand, but a spreadsheet in her new show, Every Single Thing in my Entire Life at Soho Theatre.
Isobel Rogers brings her debut hour show How to Be Content to the Fringe festival this year. Rogers is a singer songwriter comedian who throughout her show, armed with her guitar, shoulders the burden of being a hyper millennial.
Naturally funny and sunny in equal amounts, Katie Green has an up-beat stand up style that makes it impossible not to warm to her.
We’re just putting the final touches to our Awards registration process. We’ll be ready for you soon.
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The deadline for registration for the Comedy Shorts Award has passed.
If you have a short film or sketch that you think is hilarious, then enter your work for our Comedy Shorts Award to be in with a chance of winning some life-changing support and mentoring from comedy professionals.
WHAT KIND OF FILM ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?
A 1- 6 minute film that can take the form of anything comical. It’s a great opportunity to show us your creative flair and have fun!
WHO CAN ENTER?
This award is open to all women filmmakers and content developers. The film must be an original narrative created, produced and devised by a woman, or women, although male cast and crew members are allowed.
ARE THERE ANY ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR MY FILM?
Yes – we require all films to be 6 minutes or under, to be entirely original dialogue, to not feature brand logos and most importantly, to only use music with the written consent of the performer and/or publisher either personally or via the PRS system https://www.prsformusic.com/ .
WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH MY FILM?
We will broadcast selected entries on our Funny Women YouTube channel and social media (so keep an eye out) and the top 10 finalists’ films will also hosted on a dedicated Funny Women Comedy Shorts Awards page on our website. We will also broadcast the final 3 entries as part of the grand final night.
HOW IS IT JUDGED?
Films are judged for production, concept, delivery/performance, creativity, writing and overall funniness. The top 10 films are then viewed by an independent judging panel of top television and film industry professionals who will choose one overall winner and two runners up. The final three will be invited to attend the grand final in London on the 23rd September.
WHAT CAN I WIN?
2021 Funny Women Awards Prizes
The deadline for registration for the Comedy Shorts Award has passed.
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