Over three days the Upload Festival will showcase new talent with nationwide radio shows and a live video stream at bbc.co.uk/uploadfestival.
UPLOAD FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
A session for everyone. People who've written sketches before, people who've written before but never written sketches and people who want to get started. Join in and find out the tricks and the traps... and above all enjoy forming things to make people laugh. BBC Upload is full of sketches and we want even more. Tim FitzHigham is a multi-award winning Perrier nominated comedian who has toured all over the world for many years. His shows have been on TV and radio including his solo show The Gambler on BBC Radio 4. Tim is lead comedian for BBC New Comedy. Trivia: Tim was also the baddie in Paddington 2.
Sign up to the Sketch Writing workshop.
Saturday 20th June 4pm to 5pm: Writing Comedy for Stage, TV and Radio
If you have ambitions to get your work out there on stage, TV or radio, join this session. Mark Olver (biog) will take you through the similarities and differences when writing for each, to help you hone and develop your techniques and your confidence. Mark has more than 20 years' experience in stand-up, as well as writing on shows such as The Last Leg, and hosting warm-up for programmes as varied as Deal or No Deal and 8 Out of 10 Cats.
Sign up to the Writing Comedy for Stage, TV and Radio workshop.
This workshop is for all writers in all genres. An hour of advice and support on getting your words out there, and practical exercises to play with. It's hosted by Ollie Charles, who is co-founder of Untitled, a platform to amplify underrepresented voices through live writers' salons and a global online journal, "Untitled: Voices". Based in London, Ollie's currently writing a satirical novel about the fashion industry.
