About Us
Meet the team behind Comedy on Referral
Angie Belcher
Angie Belcher is a comedy pioneer, whose career has evolved from stand up, acting and performing to award-winning work as a coach and trainer, teaching comedy to CEO’s and staff at major organisations and delivering ground-breaking workshops through the NHS.
A proud graduate of The Institute for the Development of Human Potential, she holds a post-graduate diploma in Humanistic Psychology for Leadership, Facilitation and Coaching. Angie is course leader for stand -up comedy on Circomedia’s BA course in Contemporary Performing Arts, Writer in Residence for First Story, Associate Lecturer in Comedy Writing at the University of Worcester, Comedian in Academic Residence at the University of Bristol and Comedy Consultant at Birmingham Reperatory Theatre.
The Hague awarded her World Comedian of Emancipation 2022 and in 2024 she was awarded a Gold HSJ Award for best mental health partnership with the NHS, for her work providing therapeutic comedy courses.
An expert communicator and award-winning comedian, Angie regularly comperes the Glastonbury Festival’s raucous Cabaret Tent and is an accomplished stand-up comedian and writer (“Highly recommended, go see her”, Phil Jupitus). Her show “Mythical Creature” won North East Theatre Guide’s best show at Edinburgh Festival and she gained 3rd Place in What The Frocks’ best UK Comedy Newcomer competition. She also takes a lead role in the Midlands horror flick Crispy’s Curse on Amazon Prime.
Mr Cee
Mr Cee, is an international comedian and a certified trainer/assessor & has delivered tutoring workshops to a broad range of people & environments including Prisons, PRU’s & for Mental Health Units & Army Veterans.
His Corporate portfolio of training includes successful track record working of collaborations with esteemed organisations as Brent Council, The NHS, Philip Morris International, VCCP, and BT. Mr Cee is also a D&AD Black Pencil Award Winning Mentor, at the world renowned School Of Communication Arts 2.0
Mr Cee is dedicated to keeping you entertained, motivated, and laughing throughout the workshop. His unique teaching style, honed through performances across the UK and abroad, guarantees an unforgettable experience.
Mr Cee’s involvement with teaching comedy in mental well-being has been documented & featured in publications highlighting Comedy’s many benefits & his teaching philosophies are changing mind-sets.
https://www.menshealth.com/uk/mental-strength/a43426799/stand-up-comedy-mental-health/
Mr Cee is the main & most experienced Stand-Up Comedy Tutor at The Comedy School, Regents Park, London & one of the Directors at Comedy on Referral who specialise in ‘Healing by feeling funny.’
Trish Ferguson Jay
Trish trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and is based in Bristol where she works as an actor, theatre coach, facilitator, deviser, writer and director. She is a founder member and Artistic Director of the Bristol-based training and performance company: Actors’ Workshop Theatre and Creative Associate of the Femme du Monde company. Trish worked with Angie Belcher to devise the riotously funny “What has Shakespeare Ever Done for Us?” show for Bristol Shakespeare Festival.
Trish is also a fully qualified Human Resources and Organisational Development practitioner (MCIPD, MA HRM) and is co-Director of Avia HR Consultancy, which provides expert HR and OD services to a wide range of public and private sector companies.
Trish loves to use her skills in both her fields of expertise by devising and facilitating development courses in theatre, Shakespeare and improvisation for business as well as delivering presentation skills, and “finding your voice” coaching for corporate clients.
Charmian Hughes
Charmian Hughes performs her lively stand up all over the UK and has taken her comedy to Australia, New Zealand, the Channel Islands and the Scilly isles!
Charmian has devised and performed 10 different solo comedy shows for the Edinburgh Fringe, and has been nominated Best Comedy Show at the Buxton Festival (UK) and the Nelson Festival (NZ).
She has taught comedy and public speaking, devised collaborative works and is an experienced improvisor.
In the health sector, in collaboration with Leicester Comedy Festival, Charmian has performed her stand up in care homes, and co-created, performed and toured comedy based health information shows for Arthritis UK.
Charmian has assisted Angie Belcher in her delivery of Comedy on Prescription, a programme that uses the structures, exercises and games of stand-up comedy to help traumatised people in a therapeutic way.
Charmian is a British Comedian of The Year Finalist.
Gary Andrews
Gary graduated from Exeter College of Art (UK) in 1983 and has worked solidly as an illustrator and animator ever since.
He spent most of the 80s working on commercials, followed by a spell with Disney Movietoons (including working on ‘Duck Tails the movie’). Following this he animated on the Beatrix Potter films and Wind in the Willows amongst others before finally finding himself series director on Fireman Sam (from 2007 – 2018) Since 2019 he has sometimes been directing Horrid Henry. He is still the voice director for Fireman Sam (and plays Gareth!). He has also worked on many shows as a storyboard artist.
Alongside the animation, Gary has worked constantly as an illustrator producing several children’s books, endless amounts of educational publishing, assorted advertising campaigns (including the fox character for Old Speckled Hen) and has a long-term association with satirical magazine Private Eye, where he has illustrated the ‘Sylvie Krin’ stories since the mid 1980s.
Gary’s work reached a wider audience in recent years via his ‘Dodleaday’ drawings on social media, which were a response to the sudden and untimely death of his wife, Joy in 2017. They explored the grieving process as well as looking at life as a single dad. This led to an appearance on the One Show (BBC), who commissioned him to produce a short, animated film (‘For Joy’) based on the doodles and also led to the publication of his book ‘Finding Joy’ in 2021.
He has given talks and led several workshops on the healing powers of art, and the use of drawing as a self-counselling mechanism – not only for the bereaved but also for veterans and people in the care system. He is a patron of the charities The Big Draw (wellbeing through creativity) and Jigsaw South East (child bereavement) as well as an ambassador for the charities Marie Curie and Winston’s Wish.
In his spare time, he directs and performs in local theatre. He doesn’t sleep much…
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