Here at The Dump our team of writers work tirelessly to spill hot articles, and not oil.
Alison Middleton
Alison is a PhD student studying laughter in tragedy, which is not nearly as funny as she had hoped. She started up Comedy vs Climate Change in 2019, back when live events were a thing we did (imagine?!). To address the deep void she usually filled with stand-up and sketch comedy, she’s recently taken her writing to publications like Funny Women and Chortle. She has amassed a small but loyal following of Facebook based reply-guys.
Rosalie Minnitt
Rosalie is a freelance writer (lol) and semi-comedian. She’s been called a ‘Renaissance woman in the truest form’ and loves giving out unsolicited advice on subjects she knows very little about. Somehow she’s written for real life publications like Funny Women, Chortle, Times Higher Education and Journoresources. BBC radio featured her sketches and introduced her as a ‘Wiltshire Wit’ which will feature on her biodegradable tombstone.
Sully Rahim
Hi, I’m Sully (he/him). Comedy and climate change both — amongst many other things — give me huge amounts of anxiety. So, what better way to allay my worries than to share the fruits of my bleak, anxiety-riddled brain with other people — misery does love company after all!
Sandy Loam
Sandy is a typical Greenwich housewife. After studying etiquette and entitlement at Bates College, she married her first husband and moved to Connecticut. The couple live happily with their two Yorkshire Terriers and Filipino pool boy. Sandy is passionate about the environment and estate taxes. She hopes that by contributing to The Dump she can give the working class something to admire and aspire towards.
Ambika Mod
Ambika is an actor, comedian and writer, who has written comedy for BBC Radio 4 and appeared on BBC’s The Mash Report. She was a Funny Women 2020 Semi-Finalist and stand-up ‘One To Watch’, and is currently one half of 5* comedy duo, Megan from HR. (critically acclaimed at the Edinburgh Fringe and, soon, Soho Theatre). She’s vegan and cried a lot at David Attenborough’s most recent documentary on climate change, so is fully quailified to be here.
Elliot Howard-Spink
Elliot is a PhD Student studying the cognition and evolution of wild primates. As such, he has spent multiple evenings in the rainforest, laying under the stars wondering “why, dear god, did I decide to do this?”. Elliot doesn’t have many formal accolades under his belt; he is, therefore, a comedian of the people. A clown for the every-person. He belongs at The Dump because he is, indisputably, trash.
Fran Best
Fran loves comedy and hates (climate) change. Fran misses going to grimy clubs and getting a photo taken whilst you’re really too sweaty to get a photo taken and then cropping out your friends when you look surprisingly ok in it and you need a bio pic.
Tristan Robinson
Tristan is a comedian, actor and writer specialising in comedy, acting, writing and comedy. Recently promoted to senior partner in sketch duo Rompers, he lives in the North East if you can believe it and likes the idea of Planet Earth continuing to be alive.
Bróccán Tyzack-Carlin
Bróccán is a poet and comedian from Hartlepool. His 5* debut show “Dont Bother” toured to Edinburgh Fringe, Brighton Fringe and loads of other places that you didn’t bother to turn up to. It also won a Saboteur Award (oppa Trapped style). He is a multiple slam winner and has performed his work at the Royal Albert Hall. His closest friend is a small dog named Veronica. He is one half of the infamously craven sketch duo Rompers.
Polly Mackintosh
Polly is a writer who is currently communicating executively for a food media company. She therefore loves food, hates waste and the destruction of the planet, and likes her milk oaty (most of the time). She is not a comedian but has on occasion been complimented on her jokes.
Olley Matthews
Olley has been vegan for 6 years and performing comedy for less time than that. He strongly believes it’s ethically wrong to cause harm to sentient beings for your own personal enjoyment, which makes it hard to explain why he’s still doing comedy.
Rhys Rodrigues
Rhys is Capricorn from South-West London (but was raised a Virgo). After studying music at Durham University, he began work within the theatre industry, which is famously thriving right now. Rhys has so far successfully become a vegan and hopes this article will encourage you to take the plunge.
Sujay Nair
Sujay would like to think that he’s doing a PhD in mathematical physics, though some part of him knows he’s fallen too far down the rabbithole of lockdown baking. Apart from indulging in a bit of climate-induced existential angst, he likes to, occasionally, watch a film or two – which makes him more qualified than the average IMDB user (probably).