Chorts 2019 Industry Judging Panel

Saskia Schuster is the Head of Comedy for ITV and founder of Comedy 50:50, the fantastic initiative aimed at addressing gender imbalance in comedy.

At ITV Saskia has commissioned comedy shows including Glass Houses, Bad Move, The Keith and Paddy Picture Show, Harry Hill’s Alien Fun Capsule, Birds Of A Feather, Benidorm, Through The Keyhole, The Imitation Game, Play To The Whistle, The Delivery Man, Vicious, and for ITV2 Timewasters, Action Team, Plebs, Celebrity Juice, The Stand Up Sketch Show, Don’t Hate The Playaz, Coming In America, CelebAbility, The Job Lot, @elevenish, Glitchy, and also Football Genius for ITV4.

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Hils Jago is the founder of Amused Moose Comedy.

The Amused Moose comedy clubs in were originally founded with the aim of discovering new talent including Jimmy Carr, Sarah Millican, Nina Conti, Jack Whitehall, Alex Zane, Greg Davies, Romesh Ranganathan and Josh Widdicombe amongst others, and was the first venue to produce a season of Edinburgh Fringe preview shows.

Hils runs the Amused Moose Comedy Awards at the Edinburgh Fringe every August, and also has a separate Amused Moose production department.

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Michael Orton-Toliver is the co-creator, writer and Executive Producer of Borderline on Netflix (US&UK).

He also co-created Radio 4 comedy ‘The Literary Adventures of Mr. Brown.’ 

Mike is currently working on a US version of Borderline for NBC Universal and started his comedy career as a performer for Second City out of Chicago, Boom Chicago out of Amsterdam, and was the co-founder of The Free Association in London 

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