Jill Edwards – The UK’s leading comedy coach

Jill Edwards blazed the trail by creating innovative corporate training and the first 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.”

During her years as an established, successful, stand-up comic – and as one half of the female duo “PEP TALK” – Jill had toured arts centres, universities, festivals, appeared regularly on the London comedy circuit, worked at all the major venues, as well as appearing in radio, television and film.

In seventeen years of teaching stand-up she has trained some of Britain's top comics, including Shappi Khorsandi, Hal Cruttenden, Shazia Mirza, Simon Evans, Francesca Martinez, Steve Day, Seann Walsh, Angela Barnes, Jimmy Carr and his agent Hannah Chambers, top writers, including Toby Whithouse, Time Out's Tim Arthur and best seller Jenny Colgan.

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 seventeen 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.

Jill wrote the comedy material, songs and shows for "PEP TALK." After her first feature film script sold in a bidding war, she became a professional writer, represented by MBA Literary Agency.

Jill runs Comic Boom Comedy Club at Komedia, Brighton's award winning top comedy venue.