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| Quote: | More comedy industry expert have been added to the Chortle conference next week.
The event in London’s Soho Theatre is aimed at giving invaluable advice and contacts to comedians just starting out in the industry.
Micky Flanagan’s agent Christian Knowles – whose clients also include circuit favourites such as Gary Delaney and Hal Cruttenden – has joined the panel of agents.
Isabel Fay, whose Thank You Hater! video about online trolls has gone viral today, is set for the panel on how to harness the internet to build an audience. She will be joined by Kelly McGolphin, a comedy producer at Eyeworks, who has made the Dr Brown Comedy Blaps for Channel 4 and the Jazzie shorts for the BBC, and online marketing guru Myles Dyer from Channel Flip.
Evening Standard comedy critic Bruce Dessau has also joined the conference, chairing two sessions sharing all you need to know about taking a show to the Edinburgh Fringe and explaining how to pitch TV and radio ideas.
That panel will include such vital figures as Channel 4’s comedy commissioning editro Nerys Evans, BBC executive editor for comedy Chris Sussman, BBC radio comedy producer Julia McKenzie; Avalon Television’s Richard Allen-Tuner – whose creduts inclde Lee Nelson’s Well Good Show and Harry Hill’s TV Burp, and Gary Reich, managing director of How Not To Live Your Life producer Brown Eyed Boy.
Other valuable contacts attending the day include promoters, bookers, producers and venue bosses – all sharing their insider knowledge of the comedy scene – while Friday Night Dinner creator Robert Popper and stand-up Richard Herring will share their experience from a writer and performer’s side.
Some tickets for this uniquely useful day are still available using the button below.
Get your ticket
Full price £95.00 GBP
Chortle Student performer £70.00 GBP
The full schedule:
9.00 COFFEE AND REGISTRATION
9.30 Getting Started (1hr)
Hosted by comedian [url=/comics/s/31/stuart_goldsmith]Stuart Goldsmith[/url]
Pete Graham, Promoter of Downstairs At The Kings Head
Hils Jago of Amused Moose Comedy, which runs clubs, courses and competitions
Julia Chamberlain: Producer of So You Think You’re Funny? and booker for Highlight venues
Jill Edwards, who runs comedy workshops in Brighton
10.30 An alternative view (30mins)
With Noel Faulkner, Owner of the Comedy Cafe
11.00 COFFEE
11.20 Edinburgh (45mins)
Hosted by: Bruce Dessau, Comedy Critic, London Evening Standard
Ryan Taylor: Head of Comedy at the Pleasance
Barry Church-Woods: Venues & Companies Manager, Edinburgh Fringe
Peter Buckley Hill, founder of the Free Fringe and long-time festival performer
Nigel Klafeld, managing director, Bound & Gagged, one of the biggest independent promoters on the Fringe
Julian Hall, comedy reviewer with The Independent and other publications, and author of The Rough Guide to British Cult Comedy.
12.05 The agents panel (45mins)
Hosted by: Alex Rochford, director of Time Out Live
Brett Vincent: Get Comedy
Alice Russell: Avalon
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Raymond Cuttill
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HI,
I'd really like to come. I want to make money at comedy (don't we all?). I can't pay by credit card at the moment. Can anyone tell me if I can come tomorrow and pay by cash or cheque.
Thanks
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Hi Raymond
You can indeed. There will be someone on the door from Chortle who can take payment the old-fashioned way... |
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Raymond Cuttill
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Greats. Thanks. I'll be there.
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