Musings Episode Four – Welcome to the Joke Shed with Gráinne Maguire

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This episode Becky Singh and Kate Stone are talking to comedian and writer Gráinne Maguire about training your comedy writing muscles, writing for TV and being shouted at by a veteran clown.

2008 Funny Women Awards finalist Gráinne runs her own comedy writing workshops and you can see her at this year’s Brighton Fringe in May. Gráinne is also taking two shows to the Edinburgh Fringe, Guys, It’s Problematic and What Has The News Ever Done For Me? Keep up to date with all of Gráinne’s comedy events here!

Don’t forget to like and subscribe! You can listen to all episodes of Musings on iTunes and Podbean. Musings is a Future Cat production, If you have any topic suggestions or comedians you’d like us to interview email us on editor@funnywomen.com. 

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Funny Women NextUp…Comedy Shorts Award

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A 1- 6 minute film that can take the form of anything comical. It’s a great opportunity to show us your creative flair and have fun!

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This award is open to all women filmmakers and content developers. The film must be an original narrative created, produced and devised by a woman, or women, although male cast and crew members are allowed.

ARE THERE ANY ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR MY FILM?

Yes – we require all films to be 6 minutes or under, to be entirely original dialogue, to not feature brand logos and most importantly, to only use music with the written consent of the performer and/or publisher either personally or via the PRS system https://www.prsformusic.com/ .

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HOW IS IT JUDGED?

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