Counterculture UK: A Celebration

Susan has emerged as one of the best female stand-ups in the UK and was the first ever woman to MC Decompression gigs for the British Army / CSE. She is in the top 100 Huffington Post funny women Tweeters.  She’s wrote for and was a guest on Jeremy Hardy Talks To The Nation and has also starred in Stephen K Amos’ Idiots Guide both for Radio 4. She has penned 4 successful solo shows at the Edinburgh Festival as well as performing in several comedy plays and sketches.  She  made her TV acting debut in the 3rd series of ITV’s “The Job Lot” alongside Jo Enright and Russell Tovey. She is currently presenting on East London Radio  and about to go on tour with Britain’s Got Talent star Daliso Chaponda. Dates are here.

Not only that Susan has penned a chapter about comedy in Counter Culture UK A Celebration.

She has written and starred in the topical web show ‘Britain’s Got People’  with Dave Cohen ( Have I Got News For You/ Horrible Histories). Susan is working nationally for the majority of promoters and clubs in the UK and has gigged internationally; Quatar, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Germany, Luxembourg, Brussels, Ireland. Her versatility means that as well as corporate gigs Susan works  Biker Festivals and music festivals including Glastonbury, Bestival, The Big Chill, Reading, V,  Download.  Acting credits include starring in the TV comedy drama “Love, Lies and Lipstick” for ITV, Arthur Smith Sings Leonard Cohen (Pleasance, Edinburgh Festival and Garrick London) and Itch Scratch at The Pleasance Theatre.

Penny Pepper is an award-winning author, poet & disabled activist. A genre-defying writer, her work focuses on identity, difference and what makes us human. She writes stories we haven’t heard, making others see life differently, with provocation, humour and wisdom. She is passionate that disabled women are heard.

Groundbreaking publications include her memoir, First in The World Somewhere (Unbound) and poetry collection, Come Home Alive (Burning Eye Books). She currently writes a monthly column for independent newspaper Byline Times, has completed her first full-length novel, and writes commissions for publications and curated exhibitions, alongside her live spoken word performances.

Recent recognition includes Penny’s sombre and prize-winning video short, Letter to Paul, performed by Olivier award-winner Liz Carr and Penny was a finalist of the prestigious 2021 Hemingway Shorts (stories) competition, with her story published in the winning anthology.

She was also commissioned in March 2022 to write a set of poems for Representology - The Journal of Media and Diversity. She is currently occupied with a Top Secret Writing Project, more announcements on that soon!

Growing up on rough ghettoed council estates in the countryside around the Chiltern Hills, Penny now lives happily in Hastings with her black cat, Pixie.