Co-Producer, A FITTING TRIBUTE and NIGHTWALKING
Will Briggs was born in Devon during the summer of 1979. After an idyllic childhood in a small village his mother decided it would be fun to move to south east London and enrolled Will at the local comprehensive Thomas Tallis School, where he first met Daniel Cormack.
After completing his A-levels, Will was the guitarist in the band Llama Farmers, who signed to Beggars Banquet records. The band released eight singles and two albums and toured extensively throughout Europe and the US headlining and supporting acts such as Green Day, Foo Fighters and Idlewild as well as appearing at major festivals such as Glastonbury, Reading, T in the Park and SXSW in Austin, Texas with the NME describing them as “the future of rock and roll”.
After the band split up in 2001, leaving the future of rock and roll to take care of itself, Will worked at Universal Pictures International and the Sci-Fi Channel and then as an Events Co-ordinator for the Brit Awards.
He currently works as the Manager and Promoter of the 'Sunday Special' comedy night at the Up the Creek comedy club in Greenwich, a club set up by his stepfather, the comedian Malcolm Hardee. Sunday Special attracts audiences of 300+ each week with only the finest comics on the bill such as Jimmy Carr (T4), Lee Mack (The Sketch Show BBC2), Omid Djalli, Russell Brand (MTV/C4), Harry Hill, Rich Hall, Ed Byrne, Jonny Vegas and many more national and international comics.
A FITTING TRIBUTE and NIGHTWALKING are the first films Will has produced. Another, equally testing, first was catering for 30 people on a day when the caterer was unavailable; an undignified Jerry Bruckheimer meets Jamie's School Dinners scenario that he would rather not repeat.
Will future plans are to 'expand the comedy empire' over 2007 with more clubs in London and the south east and also never again to cook for 30 people.
Filmography
A Fitting Tribute [Co-Prod]
(UK, 2007, 13mins, short)
Nightwalking [Co-Prod]
(UK, 2007, 3mins, short)