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Funny Women has announced that it will be continuing The Glitter Project supporting female creatives, thanks to public funding granted by the National Lottery via Arts Council England.
Launching a fresh initiative this Autumn, as an extension of The Glitter Project, ‘A Safe Place’ will provide a series of Mentoring Meetups and Open Mic nights across six locations: London, Medway, Brighton, Birmingham, Bristol and Manchester.
Launching at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Funny Women’s The Glitter Project will host friendly events with comedy mentors to advise new female performers.
The Grand Final of the Funny Women Awards was back with a bang for 2023 at the Bloomsbury Theatre. It was hosted by Jo Brand and headlined by Lorna Rose Treen, winner of the coveted Funny Women Stage Award and Comedy Shorts in 2022, this was an occasion to remember!
The winners are:
STAGE AWARD SUPPORTED BY NEXT UP COMEDY - KATE CHEKA
It’s 1964 and girls are expected to be flirty, fabulous and fertile - they are not expected to be funny - but Barbara Parker is different. Based on Nick Hornby’s bestselling 2016 novel ‘Funny Girl’, this comic drama follows Barbara (Gemma Arterton), a young woman working in a Blackpool rock factory, who sets off for London without a plan but
The semi-finals for this year’s So You Think You’re Funny! competition will take place online and will be streamed in partnership with NextUp Comedy.
Comedy production company Objectively Funny is collaborating with mental health charity CALM at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe to offer support to people with mental health issues.
Objectively Funny will liaise with a number of mental health and wellbeing organisations in Edinburgh to share spaces AND run workshops
The inaugural Big Funny Fest takes place on Father’s Day Weekend, the 15 & 16 June, and they are marking the event with a Dad jokes competition.
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