People
Leadership
The ones who get things going...
Matt Harris, Creative Director
(Showrunner, Producer, Director, Writer, A Comedy of Gamers (both seasons), The Chef's Kiss)
Matt leads all aspects of production for 128K Studios from story development, to catering to editing and marketing.
Matt is the only Hampton Junior School pupil ever to perform his own version of the Blackadder theme in a full-school assembly.
Natalie Anson-Wright, Talent and Performance Director
(A Comedy of Gamers: Level Up- Co-director, Writer, The Chef's Kiss- Director, Writer)
Actor, Dancer, Director, Writer, Singer, quintuple threat and polymath, Nat joined 128K Studios to write on A Comedy of Gamers Season Two and stayed on to co-direct every episode and co-create The Chef's Kiss. Nat is the Head Coach at Empower Arts and boasts award-winning credits in stage and screen.
Crew
The ones who make things happen...
Calvin Peat, Assistant Producer
A Comedy of Gamers (both seasons)- Assistant Producer, writer
Calvin is the co-creator of a Comedy of Gamers, co-writing the first series with Matt. Calvin joined Season Two in a production role, steering development work on story and writing ,then leading on safety, props and behind the scenes photography.
Lucas Pelizaro, Director of Photography
A Comedy of Gamers: Level Up- Director of Photography
Lucas brought his fantastic aesthetic instincts to our second series, adding visual flourishes into filming to get the most action possible into our stripped back webcam style. Lucas has just finished The Horsemen, selected for the LIFF and winning an audience award at Feel the Reel.
Louise Braband, Sound recordist
A Comedy of Gamers: Level Up- Sound recordist
Louise joined the second series team, boldly battling with nearby builders, leafblowers, airplanes, car stereos and loudly ticking clocks to get our sound properly recorded. Louise is an experienced producer, videographer, VFX artist and all round star.
Talent
The ones who bring it to life...
Orla Sanders
A Comedy of Gamers (both seasons)- CYNDI
Performer par excellence, Orla earned a Best Actress nomination at the UK Offline Webfest for her role as CYNDI in A Comedy of Gamers.
Orla has a string of film and theatre credits and recently completed funding for Coasteering, a short film about one couple rediscovering joy at the end of an unsuccessful fertility journey.
Amber Doig-Thorne
A Comedy of Gamers (both seasons)- Georgia
Actor, comedian, presenter, geek, influencer and global phenomenon, Amber played Georgia, the reluctant but ruthless business brain behind Mad Andy’s games shop.
Amber has 3 million combined social media followers and roles in over 100 film productions including recent box office phenomenon, Winnie The Pooh: Blood and Honey.
Jon Beck
A Comedy of Gamers (both seasons)- Andy
Comedy acting’s very own Matt Murdock, Jon is a crusading family solicitor by day, and a theatre actor, quiz master, and line dance caller outside the office. Jon plays Andy, the gaming dad who has it all, except for common sense and a firm grasp on reality.
Duncan Shen
A Comedy of Gamers: Level Up- Tony
Duncan is an actor, entrepreneur and restauranteur extraordinaire, joining A Comedy of Gamers' second season in the role of sports mad, egotist Tony.
Duncan is a massively talented, massively committed performer with an extensive catalogue of commercial, audio book and stage and screen credits.
Jack Furssedon-Coates
A Comedy of Gamers: Level Up- Edmund
Actor, lover, fighter, and easily one of the top 5 most handsome members of the A Comedy of Gamers cast, Jack plays public school alumnus, and minor aristocrat, Edmund, rocking tight trousers and falling off chairs.
Jack is now in production as writer, director and lead for Alice and David, his first feature film.
Post Production
The ones who add the magic...
Jordan Hudson, Graphics
A Comedy of Gamers (Both Seasons)
Jordan is one of our OG team, creating logos and graphics to set the vibe on A Comedy of Gamers, before we’d even finished writing the show. Jordan returned for our second series, taking on more visual challenges to bring the characters' gaming failures properly to life.
James Yan, Composer
A Comedy of Gamers (Both Seasons)
James brought some incredible feats of dramatic, chiptune and comedy composition to both seasons of A Comedy of Gamers.
James has scored over 30 short films and documentaries earning nominations and awards. James contributed orchestrations to the triple-A video game, Guardians of the Galaxy and the DC cinematic phenomenon Black Adam.
Tom Rolley, Editor
A Comedy of Gamers: Level Up (Episode 4)
Tom is a fantastically talented and experienced filmmaker who led our Street Fighter episode. Tom did an incredible job bringing out the drama and tension of a live, fighting game showdown and helped us up our game across the production.
Alfie Alcorn, Editor
Writing Team
The ones who dream it all up...
Reese Morgenstern
A Comedy of Gamers: Level Up (Episode 2)
Reese is the first Jewish comedy writer ever in existence. He hails from Southern California and his writing has been a finalist in the NBC Writers on the Verge, ScreenCraft, and WeScreenplay competitions. His short films have also shown at tiny film festivals.
Inspired by Larry David and British sitcoms, Reese's goal is to write grounded, offbeat, beautifully weird comedies and dramedies.
Brad Holcombe
A Comedy of Gamers: Level Up (Episode 3)
Brad is a bona fide comedy genius. He is a fantastic comedy writer, actor, voice over artist and a genuine joy to be around and most definitely did not write this.
Brad is a versatile writer, who has written sketches, jokes, scripts as well as many other quality pieces of magic. Believe it or not, he is available for work.
Kevin Latimer
A Comedy of Gamers: Level Up (Episode 4)
Kevin is an up-and-coming Belfast-based screenwriter who provided some script consultancy on series one and stepped up enthusiastically into writing duties for two series two episodes.
He was a winner of BBC Writersroom’s Zodiak Kids Writers Award in 2020-21, and in 2022 his Scrum Down pilot script was shortlisted in the BCG’s Hat Trick Sitcom Script Competition.
Conleth McVeigh
A Comedy of Gamers: Level Up (Episode X)
Conleth, a Belfast-based comedian and improviser, joined our season two writing team to contribute more game concepts and story ideas than all other writers combined and to lead the script work on our now legendary and notorious ‘lost episode’.