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Chris Head
Chris Head

Chris Head

  • Writer, director, script editor and tutor

Press clippings

How to tell a story in stand-up

Comedy director Chris Head has some advice.

Chortle, 10th April 2022

New festival explores the funny side of faith

Medieval church will host a day of humour and standup routines.

Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian, 10th February 2019

What a stand-up comedy course could help you achieve

If you fancy boosting your confidence, presence and even likeability in the workplace this could be for you...

Rosie Fitzmaurice, Evening Standard, 3rd January 2019

Opinion: Edinburgh Fringe advice from Chris Head

It's never too early to start planning for the Edinburgh Fringe. With only ten months to go director Chris Head, author of A Directors Guide to the Art of Stand-up, offers some tips below.

Chris Head, Beyond The Joke, 3rd October 2018

Sketch Comedy Reawakens

As sketch group Daphne get nominated for the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Best Newcomer Award, Chris Head detects stirrings in the world of sketch comedy...

Chris Head, British Comedy Guide, 27th August 2015

Will Gompertz signs up for a comedy course

Meet Will Gompertz. He isn't funny. So he signed up for a 10-week comedy course - and then tried his gags out on a paying audience. He relives a terrifying ordeal

The Guardian, 21st July 2008

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