Brainne Edge (Manager)

Brainne has trained under improvisers such as Neil Mullarkey (Comedy Store Players, London), Mick Napier (Annoyance Theater, Chicago) Larry Arrick (UCLA), Various Tutors @ Second City, Chicago, Keith Johnstone, and Dick Chudnow (ComedySportz Founder). She has currently performed (and taught) improvisation in fourteen different states in the USA, as well as all over the UK and Ireland.

Brainne comes highly recommended by Salford University where she is a Lecturer in Performance and Comedy.

Brainne has recently been published in the Intellect Books - Comedy Studies Vol 1, with a paper entitled Comedy Improvisation on Television - Does it Work?.

She has a First Class Honours Degree in Media and Performance from Salford University and a Masters Of Art in Film and Video from The Surrey Institute of Art and Design. Brainne founded the UK division of ComedySportz in 2001.

Rachel Wareing

Rachel has been with ComedySportz UK since we began back in 2001. She has a degree in Drama from the London South Bank University as well as many awards in Acting over the years.

Rachel has been teaching with us regularily since 2007 and teaches the majority of our intermediate improvisation workshops.

Sean Mason

Sean is a recent graduate from Salford University, BA Media and Performance. He has been leading workshops with ComedySportz since 2008 and also heads up the Comedy For Kids workshops that we do at the Comedy Store. Sean is also a stand up comedian and writer.

Chris Tavner

Chris has performed improvisation in the UK and the USA with ComedySportz. He is also a stand up comedian. Chris mostly teaches our Beginning Improv workshops at the Comedy Store.

He is a regular player in our monthly shows at the Manchester Comedy Store.