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- Through my company Silver Comedy we are running the Die Laughing Silver Stand-up of the Year competition for entrants aged 55+ at the Leicester Comedy Festival.
- Graduate of my stand-up course Sunil Patel has won the Reading Comedy Festival new act competiton. Another graduate Kelly Kingham is storming his regular paid gigs and making waves on the live circuit. And another previous student Matt Parker is being regularly directed by me and is currently appearing with Robin Ince at Bloomsbury Theatre.
- I directed two shows for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2011 - Tony Bournemouth: Bournemouth's All Time Second Greatest Comedian and The End of the World Show. I have a number of shows forthcoming for Edinburgh 2012.
- Two stand-ups I have worked with - John Pendal and Sunil Patel - are in the finals of So You Think You're Funny at Edinburgh this year. And Ed Caruana is in the finals of the Amused Moose competition.
- Two sitcom students have scripts long-listed for both the BBC and Sitcom Trials.
- I have directed and script edited a radio sitcom set in the artworld, recorded at the ICA.
- I directed a stand up show about death. At the Assembly Rooms last Edinburgh. Your Days Are Numbered: The
Maths of Death Reviews: Chortle **** Three Weeks **** plus Daily Mail ****, Telegraph *** and The List ***.
- Three of my stand up students got to the semi-finals of So You Think You're Funny in Edinburgh.
- Recent stand up student Paul Moynihan won the new act night at the Comedy Café.
- I have set up a company offering comedy training for older people. Silver Comedy.
- I led a course for older comedy performers with Silver Comedy and Capital Age Festival that led to a live sketch show being recorded at City Hall on the South Bank.Click here to listen to the podcast that resulted.
- Two sketch writing students got material on BBC Radio's Newsjack. Two other sketch writing students got sketches on air on Radio 7's Tilt and another had a sketch on Radio 4's Recorded for Training Purposes.
- I am the editor of a huge guide to comedy writing and performing on the new British Comedy Guide website, launching soon.
- I successfully developed ex-Sun editor Kelvin Mckenzie's stand up comedy delivery for a TV show and worked with a new stand up named Simon Jenkins for a Channel 4 show. See TV in Media Coverage.
- Three stand up students from my courses got to the final stages of the Laughing Horse New Act of the Year Competition and one into the final stage of the Amused Moose competition.