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, comedy 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 Shazia Mirza, Hal Cruttenden, Shappi
Khorsandi, Simon Evans, Francesca Martinez, Steve Day, Seann Walsh, Jimmy Carr and his agent Hannah Chambers, top writers, including best selling author Jenny Colgan and Time Out’s current comedy critic Tim Arthur.

In seventeen years of corporate training she has taught professionals
across the board in how to get ahead by using the new and untapped
business tool – humour. They range from promotional staff working
with international brand-name products to senior academic and
research staff working with scientific and engineering concepts to
housing benefit trainers to Oxford University.

Jill wrote the comedy material, song lyrics and stage shows for "PEP TALK." After her first feature film script was sold in a bidding war, she became a professional writer. Jill has writing projects in development with various television and film companies. She is represented by MBA Literary Agency.

Jill also runs Comic Boom comedy club at Komedia, Brighton's top comedy venue.