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The Funny Women Awards 2020 have three major announcements:
The longlists for Comedy Writing and Comedy Shorts Awards are here and award winning actor, writer, stand-up and previous winner of the Funny Women Awards Andi Osho is revealed as Head Judge for The Funny Women Comedy Shorts Award 2020.
“I'm delighted to be head judge for the Comedy Shorts Award. I’m particularly passionate about film and storytelling so can’t wait to see what all these fabulous, funny film makers come up with. I switched career from an office job to performer relatively late in life and I’m here to say, it’s never too late to give performing, writing, film making or any creative endeavour a try,” said Andi Osho
“Thank you to all our first and second round judges and the Funny Women Team for their dedication with many hours of watching, rewatching and heated debate! There are some exceptional talents on these lists and we can’t wait to get working on the next rounds of judging and on to the Shortlists!” Becky Singh, Funny Women Awards Director.
FUNNY WOMEN COMEDY WRITING AWARD 2020 LONGLIST
This year saw the greatest number of entries ever received to the Comedy Writing Award with over 200 scripts. After much deliberation from the panel here is the top 20 longlist.
Rebecca Shortall, Mouthwash
Holly Dempster, The Happiest Place on Earth
Ellen Waddell, Period Drama
Fiona Putnam, Rattled
Eve Cowley & Elin Schofield, Screwdriver
Joanna Carolan, The Other Mother
Steph McIntosh, Masked
Zara Janjua, Scottistani
Anne-Marie Draycott & Charity Trimm, Shelf Life
Catherine Dyson, Thunder Road
Tess Carruthers, The Apothecary
Victoria Ferguson, Finale
Eryn Tett, Hostelites
Sara Butler, 0800 Babe
Stacey Evans, Big Time
Alice Etches, Twins on Tour
Olivia Phipps, The Evening Session
Victoria Morris, Spark
Francesca Sewell, Stick it t oMe
Kate Elmer, Mulch
FUNNY WOMEN COMEDY SHORTS AWARD 2020 LONGLIST
“The standard was high as ever this year and whittling the list down to 25 was extremely hard. I think the panel has selected an incredible range of scripts that cover all kinds of comedy and I'm excited to move forward to the next stage, the shortlist!” Emily O’Neill - Funny Women Comedy Shorts Award Producer
Rhiannon Hopkins
Naked Pictures
Donna Preston
Hello From the Inside
Marla Jane Lynch
How Many Twitter Followers Do You Have?
Isabelle Farah
Breakfast
Naomi Cooper
Phillipa: Notes from Isolation
Natasha Santos
#Soulmate
Megan Smith & Lily Howkins
Best Friends
Charlie Dinkin
When You Can't Stop Checking Yourself Out On Zoom
Phoebe Batteson-Brown
How Does That Make You Feel?
Mo Bayliss
Pancake Jam
Niamh Byrne
Beat Until Smooth
Rachael Hilton, Harriet Webb and Emily Houghton
The Wedding
Sascha Lowdermilk
How Does the Coronavirus Affect Gap Year Students?
Lydia and Sabrina Parker
The Band Formerly Known As The Planet's On Fire!!!!!!
Lizzy Mansfield
An Inorganic Love Story
Katie Davison
Undateable
Kitty Paterson
Stranger Hings
Julie Lockey
Ham!
Millicent Binks
Ladies, Have We Progressed? 1920's-2020's
Emma Edwards
Flaws
Briony Puddepha
How to Ensure Personal Growth During Lockdown
Eryn Tett
The Foxes F*ck on Wednesdays
Nikola McMurtrie
Karaoke: Behind the Lyrics
Laura McMahon
Sex and the Quarantine
Ilayda Arden
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