MELON COMEDY PRODUCTIONS: Est. 2017, Melbourne & London
We are a team that adapts to every brief – a huge network of writers and producers and directors that we bring in as needed. Neurodiverse-led, we bring people in that complement our talents and fit in where needed.
We’ve made award-winning films that have been adopted by causes from Surfers against Sewage to The ADHD Foundation and won awards and nominations from Edinburgh TV Festival to British Comedy Guide. What’s been our secret? Pairing ASD editors with ADHD writers. Using neurodivergent superpowers to balance out our differences and create magic out of stories other companies might have given up on – in doing so give ‘square peg’ writers their time in the sun….
Collaborate with Us or Hire Us:
We are now co-pro’ing with bigger production companies. So if you’re a producer, commissioner or a brand that would like some content to raise a smile or some awareness for their cause… or a sitcom or comedy drama unlike anything else on your slate or schedules, get in touch below.
We specialise in making funny content for all pockets – from radio (we’ve had work air on Radio 4 Extra to Resonance to BBC 5 Live) to TV (from BBC News to Channel 7) to online. We’ve had films go viral whether they were a sketch made on a phone with no budget, or broadcast-quality short films. Check out the ‘Brands/Causes we’ve worked for tabs above.
We’d love to make more, so if you’d like to buy us a coffee/ support us in any way, head to our Kofi.
Many of our team like are recovering advertising creatives. Our founder Lol did 20 years in Advertising with our other writer Nat… where they met our animator Steve Cutts. So we’re used to writing to be funny but also to make a point. Recently we’ve made work in support of CALM, World Mental Health Day, Comedy 5050, and South Coast Sirens Action Group against sewage in Brighton & Hove/Southern Water.
So if you’re a charity, action group or brand and you’d like us to make some cause-powered comedy for you – maybe to raise awareness of your mission or brand, we’d love to help. We really do believe that Comedy isn’t just medicine, it’s alchemy.
We are expanding our offering to include a neurodivergent script development consultancy, called Square Hole. We partner the right mix of ASD and NT producers and script editors with ADHD writers, we know this is the secret to success, we are setting up a development consultancy to help ADHD writers whose impaired exec functioning directly restricts their ability to structure their stories and holds them back from getting into the industry.
As founder Lorelei Mathias wrote in Chortle and Ed TV Fest magazine in 2020/2021 , it’s not enough to say ‘we welcome applications from invisible disabilities – walk this way’ – we need to be changing the mechanism of the door, and building a ramp. We offer a pool of ‘untapped talent’ that any channels can use for writers rooms or punch-ups, to increase ND representation on screen. We believe we are the only company doing this in a meaningful way, daily.
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