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COMEDY HISTORY
John Mawer started doing stand up in 1995 and improvisation a few years later. In 1999 he won the HEA Damage national comedy competition held at the Comedy Store. Between 1998 and 2002 he ran two london stand-up comedy clubs, three improvisations groups, a double act and two edinburgh shows. In 2002 John took his own two man comedy theatre show, The XX Factor, to the Pleasance theatre for the Edinburgh festival. During the 2003 Festival he helped run "Some comedians without Peter Buckley Hill", performed his one man play "Speed Date" in the 5065 Lift, made a short film and guested with "This is Soap". John currently performs and runs a regular Islington improvisational show and trawls his standup set around the London comedy circuit.
STAND UP
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1995 - 96 |
Started stand up in Birmingham (performed at the Gag club and the Glee club) |
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1995 |
BBC New comedian award semi-finalist. |
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1997 |
Moved to London, performed open spots around the London circuit (clubs played include: Ha Bloody Ha, Up the creak, Up the Chocolate Speedway, The Comedy Cafe, The Cosmic Comedy club, The Tut and Shive, The Purple turtle, Downstairs at the kings head). |
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1998 - 99 |
Double act, The Tufty Club with Clare Angel. (clubs played include: Comedy store, Comedy Cafe, The Tut and Shive, The Purple turtle, The Cosmic Comedy club) |
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1999 |
Winner of the national HEA Damage comedy competition held at the Comedy Store, London. |
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1999 |
Jointly ran and compered Comedy on the Corner - Notting Hill Gate |
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2000 |
Three-person stand up show More George Walsh to the Edinburgh Festival. Full festival run at the Gilded Balloon. |
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2000 - 2001 |
Jointly ran and compered Comedy on the Corner - Covent Garden |
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2001 - 2003 |
two year break. |
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Edinburgh Festival 2003 |
Helped run and compere Some comedians without Peter Buckley Hill at the CWU Club in Leith (full fringe run). Compered and performed at various other venues. |
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3rd Sept 2003 |
Winner of Comedy Cafe open mike night |
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June 2004 |
Week long resident compere at the Gob Akimbo comedy lounge at the Ludlow festival. |
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IMPRO
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1997 - 98 |
Weekly improvisational evening classes taught by John Lane. |
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1997 - 98 |
Member of the Laughing Cavaliers, improvising twice weekly at the Comedy Brewhouse, in the Camden Head, Islington. |
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1998 |
Performed live impro on Liberty radio with the Laughing Cavaliers. |
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1998 |
Ran and performed in Raging Bull Impro. Gigs include the best of the festival at the Brighton Komedia. |
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1998 - 01 |
Various improvisation guest spots with London Theatre Sports and Sprout. |
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2001 |
Ran and performed in The Dead Puppies Society at the Chapel Islington. |
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2001 - Now |
Regular teaching at London Theatre Sports (now LTS) Tuesday night drop in sessions. |
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Nov 2003 - May 2004 |
directing, organising and performing in Big Wednesday weekly improvisational show, Islington. |
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Jan 2003 - Oct 2003 |
Guesting with Improper in their fortnightly Covent garden show. |
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May 2003 |
Performed with Improper and visiting Chicago (Strawberry Quick) and Paris (Improbable) Groups at Soho Theatre. Also performed at Jongleurs Battersea with LTS in Londons largest Theatre Sports gig. |
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Edinburgh Festival 2003 |
Guested with and assisted with improvisation tuition for This is Soap at the C venue |
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Sept 2004 |
Semi final winners of the Make-a-Wish Theatresports match at the Red Rose, Finsbury park. |
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Over the years I've studied in various workshops with Sprout, London Theatre Sports and the Spontaneity shop. Teachers include Paul Rogan, Katie Walsh, Alison Goldie, Rebecca Northern, Dave Bourne
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1993 |
Started by writing, producing, directing and performing in University Pantomime |
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1999 - Now |
Professional web site developer, has created and looked after web sites for a number of shows and comedians. |
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2000 - 02 |
Wrote, Produced, directed, performed in XX Factor, a two person comedy play about the last woman on earth. Show was taken to the Pleasance theatre for the 2002 Edinburgh festival. |
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2002 |
Perrier nominated* cock thanks to an appearance naked during Phil Nichols Edinburgh show "Things I like I lick". |
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2002 |
Photographed nude by David Bailey for his new collection. |
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2002 - Now |
Directing and assisting Jeff Downes motivational speaker character Larry Bernstien performing at "the Hen and Chickens" Islington. |
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Edinburgh Festival 2003 |
Wrote and performed 7 show run of one man short play Speed Date in the 5065 Lift. Helped write and performed in short film Cross Reference, nominated best comedy as part of the 48 Hour film competition. |
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PERSONAL DETAILS
PHYSICAL BUILD
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Height |
6ft 3 |
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Build |
Average |
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Hair |
Dark Brown (and very long). usually clean shaven, but can have a beard if given a week or so's notice. |
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Eyes |
Green/grey |
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BACKGROUND
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Full Name |
John Mawer |
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Date Of Birth |
July 27th 1974 |
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Background |
John grew up in Africa, Southampton and Norwich. He studied ElectroMechanical Engineering at Aston university in Birmingham. John has worked for several years as a multimedia web developer, ColdFusion, ASP and Perl programmer and consultant. |
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Hobbies |
Swimming, walking, juggling, prop building including basic prosthetics (his leatherette codpiece has featured on Radio 4’s "Woman’s Hour"), cinema. |
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CONTACT DETAILS
You can email John on either hickslives@aol.com or webmaster@outofthegloom.com. John does not yet have representation for his comedy work.
