Jill Edwards – The UK’s leading comedy coach

Jill Edwards blazed the trail by creating innovative corporate training and the first UK stand-up comedy course, receiving a special mention from Ofsted, at London’s City Lit. Time Out's Malcolm Hay swiftly hailed her groundbreaking workshops as “the place to go for anyone with serious hopes of getting their act together.” Jill blazed the trail again by creating the highly acclaimed and original Brighton comedy course eight years ago, at premier award winning comedy venue Komedia, Brighton.

Over eighteen years of teaching stand-up she's trained some of the UK's top comics, including Shappi Khorsandi, Hal Cruttenden, Shazia Mirza, Francesca Martinez, Jimmy Carr and his agent Hannah Chambers. Brighton's own Seann Walsh, Simon Evans, Paul McCaffrey, Romesh Ranganathan, Angela Barnes. Writers including, Time Out comedy critic Tim Arthur, best seller Jenny Colgan and Brighton's own "Being Human" creator/writer Toby Whithouse.

Jill was the BBC's chosen Comedy Coach in the South for their "Comic Relief" project in 2011. She mentored Brighton's BBC Radio Sussex presenter Neil Pringle and appeared in BBC One's documentary "Stand-Up for Comic Relief."

In eighteen years of corporate training she has shown professionals across the board how to get ahead by using humour. They range from promotional staff for international brand-name products to senior academic and research staff presenting scientific and engineering concepts at Imperial College to the Home Office to the female staff and lecturers of Oxford University.

During her years as an established, succesful, stand-up comic - and as one half of the female duo PEP TALK - Jill toured nationwide, including festivals, appearing regularly on the national and London comedy circuit at all the major venues, as well as in radio, television and film. Jill wrote the comedy material and shows for PEP TALK. After her first feature film script sold in a bidding war, she also became a professional writer, represented by MBA Literary Agency.

Jill also books and runs monthly in-house comedy club "Comic Boom" at Komedia, Brighton.