Ed Gaughan is a critically acclaimed, award-winning writer, comedian, actor, director, musician and composer. 

He’s the voice of Baron Greenback in BBC’s Dangermouse, Gideon in Sky TV’s Brassic  (to which he’s also a contributing writer) and the Co-creator, co-writer and star of the BAFTA and BIFA nominated movie Skeletons, which won the ‘Michael Powell Award For Cinema’ at The Edinburgh Film Festival. Ed is a ‘Peter Sellers Award For Comedy’ nominee 

As a screen actor, Ed has appeared in numerous films and TV shows including Black Mirror (CH4) The Regime (HBO) and Fantastic Beasts 2.  A prolific voice actor, he has given life to a multitude of characters in animation (Dangermouse, Q Pootle 5, Capture The Flag), and regularly appears on BBC Radio 4. He was one of the writer/performer/musicians in BBC Radio 3’s much acclaimed Beautiful Cosmos Of Ivor Cutler. 

A regular on the London and UK comedy scene for many years, Ed works as a solo standup, in double act with Andrew Buckley, and in regular collaborations with Will Adamsdale and cult favourites The London Snorkelling Team.   

Ed has performed at many UK and international comedy festivals and venues including Edinburgh, Vault, Latitude, Glasgow Comedy, The Big Chill, Brisbane, Galway, Soho Theatre, Camden Roundhouse and The Bill Murray.   

Much in demand as a comedy director, Ed has created shows with some of the UK’s most loved stand ups, sketch teams and clowns, including Josie Long, Milton Jones, Pappy’s, Barry Cryer and Spymonkey.  

Ed works in the theatre as an actor, writer, director and composer with many of the UK’s leading Theatre’s and companies including Shakespeare’s Globe, NT Studios, NT Scotland, Filter Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith, Manchester Royal Exchange, Bristol Old Vic, Northern Stage, Liverpool Playhouse, and BAC (where he was an associate artist for many years).  

As a musician, Ed has performed numerous gigs including Glastonbury, London Jazz and Porto Jazz Festivals, and as a composer for stage, screen and audio. His scoring work includes Hamlet for Shakespeare’s Globe and the award winning Symphony from Nabokov.