Hello! Thanks for coming here.

I live in London and direct & produce comedy shows and teach stand up comedy (and sometimes still perform).

Recent work

Directing – shows I’ve directed have won the Best Newcomer Prize at the Edinburgh Fringe (2022 – Grl, Ltnx, Def by Lara Ricote), have won the Main Prize at the Leicester Comedy festival (2023 – “Spoilers”,  Stuart Goldsmith), and been turned into major BAFTA winning BBC shows (2024 – “Juice”, Mawaan Rizwan).

Outside Eye – I work extensively as an Outside Eye on shows. In 2024 I’ve worked on sets for Live at The Apollo (Stuart Goldsmith), tour shows (Grace Campbell, Sukh Ojla, Viggo Venn and more) and multiple Edinburgh Fringe award nominated and winning shows (including shows by Abby Wambaugh, Marjolein Robertson, Raul Kohli, Kate Cheka and more). I’ve also worked on the development of several plays, advised on a BBC Radio 4 show and on the scripts for a Netflix show. 

Dramaturgy – I was the dramaturg on Sky Comedy Rep 2022/23. An eight month collaboration between Sky Comedy and the Birmingham Rep to help 8 new writers create and then have staged 8 new comedy plays. I am the Dramaturg/Creative Lead on the Victoria Wood Prize, the world’s largest playwriting prize for comedy.

Teaching – In the past 2 years alumni of my courses have won Britain’s Got Talent, So You Think You’re Funny (with 10 getting to the semi-finals), won the NATYs and been finalists in Funny Women, the Musical Comedy Awards, British Comedian of the Year, the Chortle Student award, the BBC New Comedian of the Year (with 4 getting to the semi-finals) and won King Gong.

Production – In the past 18 months I produced 3 benefit shows for Choose Love with performers including Nish Kumar, Elif Shafak, Bridget Christie and David Baddiel.

I’m also one of the co-founders and co-owners of the Bill Murray comedy venue in Islington

Thanks,

Dec

Recent work