Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are Eli Batalion and Jamie Elman best known as Leizer and Chaimie from the cult hit web series Yidlife Crisis.

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Yidlife Crisis
Twitter: @YidLifeCrisis
Instagram: @yidlifecrisis
Website: www.yidlifecrisis.com

Created by Eli Batalion & Jamie Elman, YidLife Crisis is the world’s first 18 and over/Chai+ Yiddish web series. It’s won numerous awards and been described* as “One of the Top 1000 Things to Happen to the Yiddish Language in the Last 1000 Years”. (*By Eli and Jamie)

They will be appearing at JW3 in London as part of “Oy Canada: A Celebration of Canadian Jews” on 1st July 2021, here is the link https://www.jw3.org.uk/whats-on/oy-canada-celebration-canadian-jews

Wanting to pay homage to the yiddishkayt in their upbringing and the Jewish comedic lens on life with which they were raised, Eli and Jamie developed the YidLife Crisis web series and cultural brand. They describe YidLife Crisis as a love letter about modern Jewish identity, set mostly in Yiddish,  making Jewish identity inclusive to all through the ice-breaking power of comedy. What started as a passion project turned into a hit with over 3,000,000 video views and 30,000 subscribers, global press, awards and accolades, the collaboration of talent such as Mayim Bialik and Howie Mandel, and a chance to work with various organizations from Jewish community centers through academic institutions through comedy festivals.

Jamie Elman
Twitter: @JamieElman

Jamie has appeared on many of television’s most acclaimed series including Mad Men, Curb Your Enthusiasm, House M.D., Criminal Minds, Without A Trace, CSI: NY, The Closer and The Young and the Restless. He also played Luke, the resident piano-playing record store guy and boyfriend, for three seasons on NBC’s award winning and critically lauded drama American Dreams. His breakout role was Cody on the FOX/YTV hit teen sitcom Student Bodies. Jamie has starred in “California Dreamin'” (Grand Prix, Un Certain Regard, 2007 Cannes Film Festival), “When Nietzsche Wept”, “Shattered Glass”, “The Chicago 8”, “Saving Lincoln”, and “Random Encounters”. He has done extensive voice work for video games such as Star Wars: The Old Republic and animated films including Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph and the blockbuster Frozen. He also wrote and starred in the web series “crazy/sexy/awkward,” produced by Howie Mandel, and “YidLife Crisis,” the world’s first 18+ Yiddish comedy series. He recently appeared in the finale of Canadian series “Bomb Girls.” Jamie is also an accomplished blues and jazz pianist and singer.

Eli Batalion 
Twitter: @EliBatalion
Instagram: @elibatalion

Eli Batalion is a writer, producer, director, actor and composer for film, TV, the web and the stage who has taken his love of the arts into the realm of social entrepreneurship. Hei began his career in musical theatre with the award-winning internationally touring play “JOB: The Hip-Hop Musical.” He and partner Jerome Sable evolved their work to the screen with the musical horror comedy short “The Legend of Beaver Dam” selected to TIFF, Sundance, Berlinale and over 75 global film festivals. From there, they evolved to feature horror musical comedy Stage Fright featuring Minne Driver and Meat Loaf. “YidLife Crisis,” Eli’s project done with partner Jamie Elman, uses the disarming power of comedy to be able to build bridges within and between communities. In a short period of time, it has grown from an award-winning fictional web series to an unscripted digital docu-series “Global Shtetl,” the award-winning documentary feature “CHEWDAISM: A Taste of Jewish Montreal” and a global live touring phenomenon. Eli’s writing/directing feature film debut, Appiness, supported by Telefilm Canada and the Talent Fund, was released by distributor Gravitas Ventures in 2020.

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are Mark Maier & Rachel Berger.

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Mark Maier
Twitter: @markgmaier
Instagram: @markgmaier
Websites: www.markmaier.co.uk and www.markmaierdraws.com
Talented award-winning writer and stand-up, Mark Maier, is an established and highly sought after performer on both the national and international comedy circuits. He has worked the comedy clubs of Germany, Holland, Ireland, Hong Kong, The Bahamas, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Mark has also appeared in Harry Hill The Movie and in various cameo roles in the series Harry Hill’s TEA-TIME. Mark has taught and performed improvisation with Catherine Tate in London and has had a string of successful radio series, in which he was both writer and performer. More recently he has rediscovered his artistic roots as a pet and person portrait artist. His TV credits include Boy Meets Girl (BBC2), Edinburgh Nights for the BBC, World Stands Up (Paramount), Dating The Enemy (ITV), Bring Me The Head Of Light Entertainment (Ch5), The Stand Up Show (BBC1), Five’s Company (Ch5), Rory Bremner – Who Else? (Ch4) and Rove Live for Australian television. His awards include 3 London International Advertising Awards (radio writing – humour), 2 London International Advertising Awards (radio writing – utilities), Aerial Award (radio writing), Radio Writing and Television Award – Hollywood International Broadcast Award (radio writing), and Jewish performer of the year.

Rachel Berger
Twitter: @boom_berger
Website: https://www.rachelberger.com/
One of Australia’s most highly regarded, adept, and adaptive comedic talents, Rachel Berger has worked as a comedian, broadcaster, novelist, columnist, agitator and television entertainer. Political, passionate and armed only with her material, Rachel has been prowling the stand-up circuit like a tigress for 30 years. Rachel’s high public profile has done much to establish the position of women in comedy, providing a distinctive voice for women’s opinions and viewpoints. She’s taken four solo shows to the Edinburgh Festival and her dynamic presence and engagingly sharp observations have made her an extremely popular performer both live and on television, across Australia and overseas. Her debut novel for Penguin, Whaddya Mean You’re Allergic To Rubber? sold out faster than Judas. Rachel’s media credits include: Appearing on Statesmen of Comedy, Good Morning Australia, Good News Week, Tonite Live, The Big Gig, The Midday Show, Hey Hey It’s Saturday, hosting UPFRONT, an all women line-up, as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for ABC TV, featuring on Punchlines, a documentary about twenty years of Australian comedy and The Smallest Room in the House, ABC-TV. She’s written for The Weekly Review, The Age, The Sunday Age, Sunday Herald Sun as well as national magazines such as New Woman and Rolling Stone.
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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are stand up comic and writer Josh Howie and comedian and activist Noam Shuster.

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Josh Howie
Twitter: @joshxhowie
Instagram: @joshxhowie
Facebook: @joshhowiecomedian
Website: www.joshhowie.com
Writer and star of BBC Radio 4’s sitcom Josh Howie’s Losing It (nominated for a BBC Radio Award) Josh is a much in-demand stand-up comic, performing regularly at all the major comedy clubs around the UK. Over the previous few years Josh has also taken his distinctive brand of humor to India, Ireland, UAE, France, China, Thailand, Switzerland, Finland, Estonia and America. In 2012, he was invited to perform at the prestigious Just for Laugh’s comedy festival in Montreal, where he filmed the internationally distributed Just For Laugh’s All Access TV show. In addition, Josh has written and performed numerous solo shows for the Edinburgh Festival, before sell-out runs at the Soho Theatre, appeared on Dave’s As Yet Untitled with Eddie Izzard, two series of the Comedy Central show Comedy Store, and featured on World Stands Up and Comedy Blue for the same channel. He spent four years as the writer/presenter of The Movie Geek on Sky Movies. Often praised for his writing talent, Josh has a regular column in the Jewish Chronicle and has contributed features to The Guardian, The Times, and The Daily Mail. Josh can currently be seen on My5 TV in the UK in the sitcom “Hapless”, written by Gary Sinyor.

Noam Shuster
Twitter: @ShusterNoam
Instagram: @noam_joon

Noam Shuster-Eliassi is a freelance comedian, performer, peacebuilder and activist. A graduate of Brandeis University, she grew up in Neve Shalom Wahat Al Salam (“Oasis of Peace”), the only community where Jews and Palestinians live together by choice, and she performs in three languages – Hebrew, Arabic and English. In 2018, she was named the “New Jewish Comedian of the Year” in London. That same year, she was also the first Jewish performer in the Palestine Comedy Festival and her content went viral in the Arab media. Before lockdown, Noam was at Harvard Divinity School’s Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative developing her one-woman show in Hebrew, English and Arabic, entitled “Coexistence My Ass”. Public Radio International’s (PRI) “The World” show recently did a profile of Noam and her work: https://bit.ly/37wFgY5. On her return to Israel, Noam caught Covid 19 and spent time in a “Corona Hotel”, the story of this experience is being developed for the screen.

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are photographer and stand up comic Steve Best and comedian and academic Naomi Paxton also known for her variety act as Ada Campe.

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Steve Best

Twitter: @SteveBestComic
Instagram: @SteveBestPics
Facebook: @SteveBestPics
Website: www.stevebest.com

Steve is a stand up comedian who describes himself as “a very, very fine photographer.”

He is that, but he’s also a stunning visual comedian, his unique form of slapstick comedy is backed up with astounding variety of talents, equally at home in a sweaty club or a shiny cabaret stage. He claims to have appeared at near enough damn it every comedy club in the country, as well as supporting the likes of Frank Skinner, Craig Charles and Omid Djalili on massive nationwide tours. He has also taken his unique style of comedy all over the world, performing in such places as Bali, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Cape Town, Bosnia, The Falkland Islands and Johannesburg. He co-produced the show Abnormally Funny People in 2005, conceived to incorporate disabled comedians and actors into the mainstream arena. Steve is the token non-disabled act and is one of two directors of Abnormally Funny People Ltd, set up in 2006.

As a photographer, Steve is renowned for his collections of Green Room shots of comedians, and has published a number of books that are available from his website. 

Naomi Paxton

Twitter: @NaomiPaxton | @AdaCampe
Instagram: @Naomi.Paxton | @Ada.Campe
Website: www.naomipaxton.co.uk

Dr Naomi Paxton is a performer, writer, broadcaster, and researcher.

She is currently employed as Knowledge Exchange Fellow at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London. She is also a Parliamentary Academic Fellow, and an Associate Fellow of the School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Naomi trained as a performer at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland). After a decade as a professional actor, in 2011 she started a PhD in the Drama department at the University of Manchester. Her doctoral research, completed in 2015, explored the work of the Actresses’ Franchise League and the contribution of theatre professionals to the suffrage campaign. Naomi is a member of Equity, and The Magic Circle. She is also Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer for The Magic Circle.

Naomi performs comedy, cabaret, magic and variety shows as her character Ada Campe. In 2018 she won the prestigious New Act of the Year Show (NATYS), and the Leicester Square Theatre Old Comedian of the Year competition. In 2019 Ada Campe was shortlisted for the Chortle Awards in the Variety category, and for the 2019 Funny Women awards in the Best Show category.

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are comedian & comedy writer Meryl O’Rourke and singer/songwriter & founding member of 10cc, Graham Gouldman.

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Meryl O’Rourke

Twitter: @MerylORourke

Facebook: @MerylORourke

Website: Via Agent

Meryl O’Rourke has worked for over 12 years as a high level topical TV gag writer and as a stand-up in her own right. She has written for Frankie Boyle for much of this time, from panel shows like Mock the Week and Never Mind the Buzzcocks, through to BBC’s Frankie Goes To Russia, Frankie Boyle’s Tour of Scotland and four series of Frankie Boyle’s New World Order. Meryl wrote for the 2019 Olivier Awards, broadcast on ITV and has also written for ITV 2’s Dress To Impress.

In 2019 she debuted her solo stand-up show Vanilla and her 2011 show, Bad Mother was The Times’ and The Observers Critic’s Choice. Meryl was also the inaugural winner of the Betty Box and Peter Rogers/Big Talk comedy writing programme and as a stand-up, she has supported Frankie Boyle many times as part of his national tour, including at Hammersmith Apollo.

Meryl’s radio credits include writing and performing her own comedy series The Hysterical Method Of Conception for Woman’s Hour (BBC Radio 4) and a Sony Radio Academy Award Nomination for Best Breakfast Show. More recently, Meryl has written gags for BBC World Service’s Comedians vs The News.

As an experienced journalist, Meryl has written extensively as a columnist for Time Out and as a feature writer for Mark Millar’s magazine CLiNT. She also works as a script editor and writing coach.

Graham Gouldman

Twitter: @GrahamGouldman

Instagram: @GrahamGouldman

Website: www.grahamgouldman.info

Born in Manchester, Graham was given his first guitar at the age of 11 and started playing with local bands at 15. He received early encouragement to develop his musical talent from his mother Betty and father Hymie, who also contributed with suggested lyrics and song titles.

Graham played with various Manchester bands before forming The Mockingbirds in 1965 (with Kevin Godley on drums), and when the record label Columbia rejected Graham’s first single composition for the band, it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. The song, For Your Love, became a huge hit for The Yardbirds.

Working by day in a men’s outfitters shop and playing by night with his semi-professional band, Graham went on to write a string of hits. In 1972, along with Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley and Lol Creme, he formed 10cc and enjoyed a string of Top 10 hits, including three No 1s – Rubber Bullets, I’m Not In Love and Dreadlock Holiday. It’s the enduring popularity of these tracks and Graham’s love of playing songs acoustically, that led to the formation of Heart Full of Songs, a show which features many of these songs.

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger & Philip Simon for their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are Canadian actor and podcaster Kerry Shale and performer, writer and pickle aficionado Rachel Mars.

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Kerry Shale

Twitter: @IsItRollingPod

Website: www.kerryshale.com

Kerry is a London-based Canadian actor who has worked extensively in theatre, film and television and voice over. His theatre work includes productions at The National Theatre and The Donmar Warehouse and he has appeared in the West End in The Normal Heart and Frost/Nixon.

His film & TV credits include Barbra Streisand’s Yentl, Little Shop of Horrors, Labyrinth, playing Ronnie Corbett’s godson in Sorry! and Mr Beaver in BBC’s The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. More recently he has been seen in Patrick Melrose and The Trip To Spain, as well as New Tricks, Mr Selfridge, The Trip, Life’s Too Short, Not Going Out, Dr Who and Steven Poliakoff’s Gideon’s Daughter. For BBC Radio, Kerry has acted in hundreds of plays including his own adaptations of Dr Strangelove and A Confederacy of Dunces. He has been the voice of Bill Bryson and Woody Allen, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Mark Twain, as well as the far more serious Gnasher in Dennis and Gnasher, Sir Topham Hatt (The Fat Controller) in Thomas and Friends (USA) and Diesel in Thomas and Friends (UK). He plays dozens of characters in the BAFTA and Emmy-winning series The Amazing World of Gumball (Cartoon Network).

Links:

The Film Programme

Kerry and two actor friends discuss being in Yentl. Lots of Barbra stories!

The Kubrick Test

The radio play about Stanley Kubrick that was talked about at great length in the episode, written by Kerry and starring Henry Goodman.

Rachel Mars

Twitter: @RachelOfMars

Instagram: @RachelOfMars

Website: www.rachelmars.org

Rachel describes herself as a performance maker and writer with a background in theatre, live art and comedy. She explores the idiosyncratic cultural and political constructs that inform the way we are together, as people, just trying to figure it all out. Her work wrestles with female, Jewish and Queer identities and their intersections.

She makes performance work as a solo artist and collaborates with a range of artists including Greg Wohead [Story #1 / Gaping Hole] and nat tarrab as mars.tarrab – the 2017 Oxford Samuel Beckett Theatre Trust Award Winners. Recent commissions have included HOME Manchester/The Entertainment Group, Leeds Playhouse, The Junction, Cambridge; Royal Court Tottenham; Fuel Theatre and Ovalhouse. She’s been on residencies recently including The Orchard Project and Asylum (NY),  Playwrights Centre (Minneapolis) and Playwrights’ Workshop (Montreal) and Cove Park (UK)  She is a fellow at the Birkbeck Centre of Contemporary Theatre, have taught workshops on University courses in the UK and artist development programmes in the UK, Canada and the US. Rachel is also a regular contributor to ‘Pause for Thought’ on BBC Radio 2. 

Rachel is also the brains behind a fantastic YouTube series called PickleWatch where she quite literally reviews pickles.

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon for the first episode of the third series of their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are UK comedy writing royalty Marks & Gran.

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Marks and Gran:
Twitter @marksandgran
Website: www.marksandgran.com
Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran are jewels in the UK comedy crown, best known as the writing team behind some of our most iconic sitcoms including Shine On Harvey Moon, The New Statesmen, Birds Of A Feather, Love Hurts and Goodnight Sweetheart. Their theatre credits include Dreamboats and Petticoats, Von Ribbentrop’s Watch, Love Me Do, Playing God, Save the Last Dance for Me, and Dreamboats and Miniskirts.

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger and guest host Russell Balkind for Episode 19 of their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, (produced by Russell too). This week’s guests are writer/comedian Andrea Hubert and comedy writer/producer Howard Cohen .

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Andrea Hubert: Twitter @ShutUpAndrea

https://www.andreahubert.com

Andrea describes herself as a comedian, writer and amateur taxidermist. She claims to have only ever stuffed one mouse (Alan) but still likes to think of it as a hobby, albeit a rarely practiced one. She has performed stand up comedy all over the UK. Andrea performed her debut Edinburgh show ‘Week’ at the Edinburgh Festival in 2016, and received lovely reviews, her second show ‘Holes of Joy’ at the Edinburgh Festival in 2018 also went pretty well. She’s currently writing her 3rd hour, which will probably revolve around her Jewishness, and how to avoid talking about the middle east at dinner parties. Andrea does film writing for The Guardian Guide, and comedy for TV. She contributed sketches for BBC’s Walk on the Wildside, and E4’s Mad on Chelsea. In 2013, she and her writing partner Ryan Cull won the BAFTA Rocliffe New Comedy Writing Forum. They sold their first sitcom to the BBC, and are currently finishing their first feature length script.

Howard Cohen: Twitter @TheHowardCohen  Insta @TheHowardCohen

Howard Cohen is creative director at Rogo Productions. He is a Bafta-winning producer who has developed shows for companies including Warner Bros, Disney, Fulwell 73, Expectation Entertainment and Lion Television. Commissioned projects include Sky’s animal game-show Play Your Pets Right, BBC’s Impractical Jokers, Stacey Dooley Investigates for BBC3, Unrighteous for Dave, and two episodes of Sky’s scripted Urban Myths series. He also co-hosts the podcast Dane Baptiste Questions Everything.  As a short film maker his work has been nominated for awards around the world including The London Short Film Festival, The Los Angeles Independent Film Festival & The Houston Comedy Film Festival. His film “Something For The Wickend” won the people’s choice award at The London Short Film Showcase, and 2015’s “The Milkman” won Best Film at The KinoDot International Film Festival.

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon for Episode 13 of their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish, produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are Vivien Goldman and Toby Mott

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Vivien Goldman

Twitter @PunkProfessor Insta @viviengoldmanforreal
https://www.viviengoldman.com

Vivien is a writer, musician and teacher, best known as the Punk Professor. She was Bob Marley’s first UK publicist and worked with him and the Wailers, eventually writing “The Book Of Exodus – The Making and Meaning of Bob Marley & the Wailers’ Album of the Century”. She is also the author of many other books, including the biography of Kid Creole and the award winning “Revenge Of The She Punks”. She was a member of The Flying Lizards and Chantage, and her greatest hits album, Resolutionary, was released in 2016.

Toby Mott

Twitter @CulturalTraffic Instagram @culturaltraffic
www.culturaltraffic.com

Toby is a British artist, designer and sometime Punk historian known for his work with the Grey Organisation, an artists’ collective that was active in the 1980s, for being a founder member of the infamous Anarchist Street Army and for his fashion brand Toby Pimlico. More recently he has become known for his Mott Collection, an archive of UK punk rock and political ephemera, and the Cultural Traffic Arts Project.

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Jess Robinson: @JessieRobinson
https://www.jessrobinson.co.uk/
A quadruple award-winning comedy impressionist and classically-trained singer, Jess Robinson has returned to the Edinburgh Fringe with a new show every year since 2014; her latest, the wildly successful NO FILTER, rounded off a critically-acclaimed, nationwide tour throughout 2019. In 2017, Jess also appeared on Britain’s Got Talent, making it to the live shows, with her audition video becoming a viral sensation, clocking up millions of online views. She’s also the host of another fabulous podcast called Stars in your Ears (almost as good as this one) and can currently be heard voicing most of the women on Spitting Image.

Simon Lipkin: @SimonLipkin
Simon is an actor and puppeteer, best known for his work in musical theatre. His West End credits include ‘Avenue Q’ ‘Rock of Ages’ and ‘The Wind In The Willows’, and you’ll know him from his television work on ‘The Amazing World of Gumball’ and ‘Doctor Who’. He has worked with our very own Philip Simon as a muppeteer, and in 2018 starred as Mr Poppy in the hit comedy films ‘Nativity 3: Dude Where’s my Donkey?!’ and ‘Nativity Rocks!’

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Anthony Horowitz: @anthonyhorowitz

anthonyhorowitz.com
Anthony Horowitz is one of the most prolific and successful writers working in the UK – a born polymath; juggling writing books, TV series, films, plays and journalism. Anthony has written over 40 books including the bestselling teen spy series Alex Rider, which he adapted into a movie that was released worldwide in 2006.

He is also an acclaimed writer for adults and was commissioned by the Conan Doyle Estate and Orion Books to write two new Sherlock Holmes novels, The House of Silk and its sequel, Moriarty. Most recently he was commissioned by the Ian Fleming Estate to write the James Bond novel Trigger Mortis.

Anthony is responsible for creating and writing some of the UK’s most beloved and successful television series, producing the first seven episodes (and the title) of Midsomer Murders. He is the writer and creator of award-winning drama series Foyle’s War, which was the Winner of the Lew Grade Audience award for BAFTA. Anthony has also written other original complex dramas for ITV, particularly thrillers including Collision, a major five part “state of the nation” piece and legal thriller Injustice. Foyle’s War returned in March 2013 as a Cold War thriller and was greeted with such critical acclaim and demands for more that he wrote one final series, bringing the show to an end in January 2015.

Anthony’s latest show New Blood will premiere on BBC iPlayer later this year.

Anthony was awarded an OBE for his services to literature in January 2014. His newest novel, Moonflower Murders, has just been published and is available in all good book retailers. https://www.waterstones.com/book/moonflower-murders/anthony-horowitz/2928377021047

Alice Fraser: @aliterative

alicecomedyfraser.com
Alice is an award winning writer, broadcaster, performer and comedian. She’s also an ex academic, ex-corporate Lawyer and (sort of) banjo player.

Studying Arts/Law at Sydney University, Alice began her life in comedy through the Improvised Comedy scene and the Arts and Law Faculty Revues across two universities and 5 years of writing, directing, producing and performing. During her Masters in English Literature (Rhetoric) at Cambridge, she carried her love of sketch comedy writing and performing into the Cambridge Footlights.

She has performed sold out solo shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Sydney Comedy Festival, Canberra Comedy Festival, Perth, Adelaide, New Zealand and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals and performed all over the world, from Cambridge to New York, and from London to Damascus to universal critical acclaim and packed houses. Alice won the inaugural Homebake Comedy Competition, and was nominated for best newcomer at the Sydney Comedy Festival 2013. She was named as one of Chortle’s Gigs of the year in 2015. She was an SCF FRESH act, and consistently gets quite nice five star reviews for her solo shows.

Alice was awarded the 2016 AMP Tomorrow Fund grant for her podcast ‘Tea With Alice’ and has toured the world with her solo shows The Resistance, and Savage and Ethos which can now be viewed on Amazon Prime Video. The Trilogy podcast series commissioned by ABC Radio was voted Apple Editorials Team’s #1 Best Australian Podcast for 2018. Alice writes jokes for The Project on Channel 10, as well as the satirical news radio show “A Rational Fear”. She has appeared on BBC Radio 4, and Radio National as well as having co-hosted the cult radio show “Tracksuits” weekly on FBi radio in Sydney for many years. She also appeared on “Whovians” (episode 4) on ABC. She is a frequenter on “The Bugle” hosted by Andy Zaltzman and part of the ‘Troll Play’ ABC Radio podcast alongside Sami Shah and Cal Wilson.

She writes a regular column for SBS Comedy and The Chaser Quarterly. Alice’s solo show The Resistance is available on iview, on ABC 2’s Comedy Next Gen, and as part of Virgin flights on-board entertainment.

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Ben Van Der Velde: @BenVanDerVelde

www.benvandervelde.com

Over the past decade Ben Van der Velde has spread joy and nonsense to all four corners of the British Isles, as well as Greece, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Estonia, Latvia, Finland and Norway. He is a regular host and act for respected British comedy clubs such as The Comedy Store, Komedia, The Glee, The Stand, the Frog & Bucket and Comedy Club 4 Kids, as well as hosting stages for Bestival, Festival No.6, End of the Road and Sunday Papers Live. He also has experience of performing at RAF Bases, large corporate events, hosting comedy workshops and doing audience warm-up for Deal Or No Deal. On top of that, he has taken commissions to perform a voodoo re-marriage ceremony, founded the Church of the Holy Kazoo with comedy legend Mark Thomas, walked the entire London Underground network to raise money for The Refugee Council, hosted a comedy tour of the FIFA Museum in Zurich and even took part in experiments at The Royal Society that revealed him to have the most infectious laugh of any human, rat or monkey. Ben is a regular performer at the Edinburgh Festival, where he has performed five critically-acclaimed shows: Chain Letter, Strudelhead, Barbarians,Sidekick and Fablemaker. In 2016 his show received 5 and 4 star reviews, whilst several of jokes made it into lists of ‘Best Joke at the Fringe’ compiled by The Scotsman, i-News and The Huffington Post. Ben has two podcasts, “Worst Foot Forward” and “Classic Joke Club” which he also runs as an Edinburgh show.

Juliet Meyers: @julietmeyers

Juliet Meyers is a stand-up comedian, MC and writer and recently appeared on Jason Manford’s weekly stand up show on Zoom. She has written for Sarah Millican, on “The Sarah Millican Television Programme” and her radio series “Elephant in the Room”.  Juliet has also written for panellists on “8 out of 10 Cats Does Countdown” (channel 4), “Mock The Week” (BBC2), Radio 4’s “News Quiz” and “Now Show”, Radio 2’s “Listomania with Susan Calman”, “Breaking the News” (BBC Radio Scotland),as well as topical jokes for various end of the year news round ups. Juliet has taught comedy at University of Brunel and courses on self expression and resilience through comedy at various secondary schools. She was previously a writer and editor of educational teen magazines for 10 years. A familiar face at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival since 2004, her solo shows have been received with critical acclaim. Most recently she has been working with a new comedy partner, her dog Homer, who co-starred in “This Flipping Rescue Dog Has Ruined My Life” and “Year of the Dog”. Before Coronavirus put a stop to those sort of shenanigans, Juliet was starting to preview a brand new show, “Found” in which she talks about how she “went to India to discover my Iraqi-Jewish roots and unleashed family feuds, bad gurus, smug sex therapists and furious monkeys. I fell out with my travel companion and I nearly died (twice).” Like our very own Rachel Creeger, Juliet is part of the rotating cast for Sajeela Kershi’s award winning show “Immigrant Diaries”.

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Join Jewish Comedians Rachel Creeger and Philip Simon for Episode 6 of their comedy podcast, a chat show about all things Jewish produced by Russell Balkind. This week’s guests are musical storyteller Daniel Cainer and the world’s oldest performing comedienne and BGT star Lynn Ruth Miller.

Daniel Cainer: @DanielCainer

www.danielcainer.com

Daniel is an award-winning songwriter, performer, broadcaster and several other words ending in ‘er’, and known as the “Comic Bard of Anglo Jewry”.

His deeply moving tales about his family and observational comedy are a joy. Feuding tailors, a naughty rabbi, family fables (and foibles) – all the human condition is here, lovingly and intelligently depicted in a remarkable collection of stories-in-song. With brilliant rhyming and wordplay, great musicianship and haunting tunes, he delivers a performance that you’ll never forget.

Lynn Ruth Miller: @LynnRuth

www.LynnRuthMiller.net

Most famously seen on Britain’s Got Talent (https://youtu.be/wNeQBnvyjbo), Lynn Ruth Miller, dubbed the new Joan Rivers of Fringe Comedy, is the poster girl for growing old. She started doing stage comedies when she was 70 years old and had since received many accolades and recognitions. She won The Time Out and Soho Theatre (TO&ST) Award in 2014; 2015 Old Comedian finalist; made the top 100 in the UK in Britain’s Got Talent, won People’s Choice in 2009; 2015 Liberty Award Leicester Comedy Festival; semi-finals in the SF International Comedy Competition and Star of the Brighton Fringe Festival in 2009 and the finals in Bill Word’s Funniest Female Contest 2009.

At 86, she has numerous comedy and five-star cabaret shows and has toured all over the world. She is currently considered as the oldest performing stand up female comedian on both sides of the Atlantic.

Her new book “Getting the Last Laugh: The Inspirational True Story of the World’s Oldest Performing Comedienne” is available now from all good book sellers.

http://mybook.to/lynnruthmiller

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