Angie Belcher – Comedian, Actor, Writer, Coach and Comedy Educator

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 presentation skills to CEO’s and staff at major organisations and delivering ground-breaking workshops through the NHS.

For more than fifteen years, Angie has been specialising in the link between comedy, mental health and personal development. Her Comedy On Referral program attracted global coverage when the project was launched, using stand-up comedy workshops to help people in recovery from trauma for the NHS, the first of its kind in the world. She was also commissioned by the NHS to provide stand-up comedy projects for men at Risk of suicide through the charity Rethink.

An expert communicator and award-winning comedian, Angie has compered many stages including 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. As a professional actor she also takes a lead role in the Midlands comedy horror flick Crispy’s Curse on Amazon Prime.

Angie was commissioned to write The Bristol Comedy History walk and the audioplay Walking with Toddlers as part of Walking and Re-Creation, a health and comedy project funded by The Brigstow Institute.

A proud graduate of The Institute for the Development of Human Potential, she also holds a post-graduate diploma in Humanistic Psychology for Leadership, Facilitation and Coaching and teaches masterclasses in expert communication and negotiation to a range of organisations from Category A Prisoners to Bankers.

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, and Comedian in Academic Residence at the University of Bristol.

Not shy of delivering quirky arts and health projects, she also has a daytime comedy club AFTERMIRTH which provides entertainment to new parents, and ELDERMIRTH, which provides comedy shows for people in care homes.

In 2022 Bristol Live named Angie Bristol’s 2nd most influential woman for her pioneering work in comedy and health. The Hague awarded her World Comedian of Emancipation 2022.