What’s your stage name?
Olivia Flood-Wylie
What’s your hometown?
Los Angeles, California
Where do you live now
Amsterdam, Netherlands
What’s your principle occupation?
Bartender
Who are your comedy heroes?
Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Issa Rae
What’s your stage name?
Gillian Fitz
What’s your hometown?
Kerry
Where do you live now
Dublin
What’s your principle occupation?
Administrator for an online college
Who are your comedy heroes?
Sarah Millican, Sara Pascoe, Lee Evans and Bill Burr
What’s your stage name?
Suchandrika
What’s your hometown?
London (well, Hornchurch, where London meets Essex…)
Where do you live now
London
What’s your principle occupation?
Freelance journalist / media trainer / podcaster
Who are your comedy heroes?
Abi and Ilana of Broad City, French and Saunders, Eddie Murphy, Ryan Stiles, Josie Lawrence, Arabella Weir, Jo Brand, everyone involved in Goodness Gracious Me’s ‘Going out for an English’ sketch
What’s your stage name?
Ambika Mod
What’s your hometown?
Potters Bar, Hertfordshire (where I still live with my parents lol)
Where do you live now
Potters Bar, Hertfordshire
What’s your principle occupation?
Actor/comedian
Who are your comedy heroes?
Predominantly American comedy writer/performers like Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Steve Carell, Kristen Wiig, Mindy Kaling etc you get it…
What’s your stage name?
Taran O’Sullivan
What’s your hometown?
Skryne Co.Meath Ireland
Where do you live now
Dublin
What’s your principle occupation?
Production Assistant
Who are your comedy heroes?
My comedy heroes are Deirdre O’Kane, Joanne McNally, Aisling Bea, Amos Gill, Simon Taylor and Micky Flanagan
What’s your stage name?
Christina O’Sullivan
What’s your hometown?
Passage West, Cork, Ireland
Where do you live now
London
What’s your principle occupation?
Environmental Campaigner
Who are your comedy heroes?
Hannah Gadsby, Katya Zamolodchikova, Thanyia Moore, Jujubee, Jessica Fostekew, Sara Barron, Amy Sedaris, Sindhu Vee
What’s your stage name?
Victoria Olsina
What’s your hometown?
Alta Gracia (Argentina), the city of Che Guevara.
Where do you live now
East London
What’s your principle occupation?
SEO consultant, I rank pages first on Google
Who are your comedy heroes?
Hannah Gatsby, Daniel Sloss & Laura Lexx
What’s your stage name?
Karen Hobbs. Unfortunately.
What’s your hometown?
Little Wymondley – don’t worry, nobody has EVER said ‘oh I know where that is’. It’s the arse end of Hertfordshire.
Where do you live now
Peckham or Camberwell, depending on who I’m talking to.
What’s your principle occupation?
Running a free information service at a gynae cancer charity. I’m an angel.
Who are your comedy heroes?
Anyone who is more successful than me but not younger than me.
What’s your stage name?
Izzy Askwith
What’s your hometown?
Banbury
Where do you live now
London
What’s your principle occupation?
Production Assistant
Who are your comedy heroes?
Sara Pascoe, Mr. Blobby and Nate Bargatze
What’s your stage name?
Ania Magliano
What’s your hometown?
Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Where do you live now
London
What’s your principle occupation?
Junior Creative – basically a copywriter/writing funny tweets for big companies!
Who are your comedy heroes?
Rose Matafeo, Desiree Burch, Hannah Gadsby
We’ve had the great pleasure of seeing some of the greatest new female comedy acts begin their careers by taking part in the Funny Women Awards. So many of our alumni have gone on to do amazing things, and become household names. We couldn’t be more proud.
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.
If you need further information please contact us here