WHO WE ARE
There will be around 30 Panel members and support people this year who have been chosen via a very careful vetting process of shout outs on Facebook and asking around. They all have the crucial credential of 'being in Edinburgh anyway' - so they are performers, producers, technicians, anyone with some time to spare to make the awards work for free this year.
The collective of around 30 volunteers run the comedy awards. These are the people that are making the ISH EDINBURGH COMEDY AWARDS possible, admin people and judges, all for free, so please let the Panel Judges into your show and give them a comp if they ask - THEY'LL HAVE AN ISH EDINBURGH COMEDY AWARDS ID BADGE.
The Panel is coordinated by Comedy Producer Sarah Bowles, who was awarded in September 2023 with the Funny Women Comedy Industry Award for her work on the ISH Awards and other projects. The Awards were created by comedian Nathan Cassidy (wikipedia) who again is the only comedian doing a full run this year who won't be eligible to win!
WANT TO BE ON THE 2025 JUDGING PANEL?
We are always on the look out for more people for the judging panel, which sounds grander than it is, basically it involves you being allocated say 10-15 shows at random (or more or less as suits you), around one show a day in the first two weeks of the Fringe, watching them and telling us if you think any of the shows you’ve seen could be the funniest show on the Fringe. For the last two years the judges loved the process; as well as seeing shows they would never have seen, they got free tickets to shows that had sold out. This creates our long list in the first 2 weeks of the Fringe, after which as many judges as possible stay on and see shows again to create the short list and the winners.
Being a judge doesn’t preclude your show or a show you’re involved with from being judged and potentially nominated, all eligible shows are seen.
For more info on the process and last two years’ experience please see the About page.
All shows you’d obviously see for free. You’d be allocated the shows at random (obviously not clashing with any of your current commitments), and you wouldn’t judge on any show you have any professional/personal connection with, knowing them vaguely from the circuit is fine.
There’s no money in it for the panel judges, just being a part of something - based on previous years’ experience - that is fun, interesting, inclusive and supportive of the comedy community. There’s always a real team spirit amongst the judges and we all had a great time at the closing ceremonies, last year with appearances from Milton Jones and Bobby Davro, this year the ceremony will again be late night on the final Friday of the Fringe at the Counting House Ballroom.
Please let us know if that’s of interest by contacting Sarah at [email protected]
The collective of around 30 volunteers run the comedy awards. These are the people that are making the ISH EDINBURGH COMEDY AWARDS possible, admin people and judges, all for free, so please let the Panel Judges into your show and give them a comp if they ask - THEY'LL HAVE AN ISH EDINBURGH COMEDY AWARDS ID BADGE.
The Panel is coordinated by Comedy Producer Sarah Bowles, who was awarded in September 2023 with the Funny Women Comedy Industry Award for her work on the ISH Awards and other projects. The Awards were created by comedian Nathan Cassidy (wikipedia) who again is the only comedian doing a full run this year who won't be eligible to win!
WANT TO BE ON THE 2025 JUDGING PANEL?
We are always on the look out for more people for the judging panel, which sounds grander than it is, basically it involves you being allocated say 10-15 shows at random (or more or less as suits you), around one show a day in the first two weeks of the Fringe, watching them and telling us if you think any of the shows you’ve seen could be the funniest show on the Fringe. For the last two years the judges loved the process; as well as seeing shows they would never have seen, they got free tickets to shows that had sold out. This creates our long list in the first 2 weeks of the Fringe, after which as many judges as possible stay on and see shows again to create the short list and the winners.
Being a judge doesn’t preclude your show or a show you’re involved with from being judged and potentially nominated, all eligible shows are seen.
For more info on the process and last two years’ experience please see the About page.
All shows you’d obviously see for free. You’d be allocated the shows at random (obviously not clashing with any of your current commitments), and you wouldn’t judge on any show you have any professional/personal connection with, knowing them vaguely from the circuit is fine.
There’s no money in it for the panel judges, just being a part of something - based on previous years’ experience - that is fun, interesting, inclusive and supportive of the comedy community. There’s always a real team spirit amongst the judges and we all had a great time at the closing ceremonies, last year with appearances from Milton Jones and Bobby Davro, this year the ceremony will again be late night on the final Friday of the Fringe at the Counting House Ballroom.
Please let us know if that’s of interest by contacting Sarah at [email protected]
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