Country Mile Productions is an Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated multimedia production company established in 2016. Alongside our highly successful, always sell-out mixed-bill gigs, we have also produced exciting and original shows playing to audiences in London, the Edinburgh Fringe, and around the UK.
In 2021 & 2022 we produced Liz Kingsman's sold-out 'One-Woman Show' at the Soho Theatre, which received rave reviews and was The Guardian's #1 Comedy Show of 2021, The Telegraph's 30th Best Cultural Event of 2021 (sorry Adele!), one of The Times' 5 Best Comedy Shows of 2021, and was nominated for the Best Comedy Show Award at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe. We’re pretty proud of it too.
We also produced the original live show 'Britney' in 2016, now a smash-hit BBC3 pilot. In 2022, we took 10 shows to the Edinburgh Fringe: critically acclaimed, sell-out debut hours from Ania Magliano, Nic Sampson & Alex MacKeith, a brand new show from Britney, a Best Of from Fringe favourites Sheeps, and more. In 2023, we produced Ania Magliano’s Best Comedy Show Award nominated show, as well as sell-out debut hours from Lorna Rose Treen and John Tothill, and more. And in 2024, we had our biggest Fringe yet, producing sold-out, critically-acclaimed shows from Ania Magliano, John Tothill, Sheeps, Jazz Emu, Lorna Rose Treen and Rachel Kaly.
We've also produced multiple sell-out runs of the improv show 'They Seem Nice', and the anarchic, live band mixed-bill gig Jazz Emu’s Pleasure Garden. In 2024 we branched out further, co-producing comedy Christmas album ‘A Very Sheeps Christmas’, featuring Sheeps, Jamie Demetriou, Lolly Adefope, Rose Matafeo, Charlotte Ritchie and Emma Sidi, and co-producing musical comedy visual album ‘Jazz Emu: Ego Death’.
Our curated monthly mixed-bill nights bring audiences the best live comedy talent around - past acts have included James Acaster, Sara Pascoe, Aisling Bea, Nish Kumar, Brett Goldstein, Lolly Adefope, Tim Key, Phil Wang, Rose Matafeo, Ed Gamble, John Kearns, Sindhu Vee, Sam Campbell, Mike Wozniak, Lou Sanders, Fern Brady, Leo Reich, Lara Ricote and many, many more. Our gigs have been described as “exceptionally good” by Time Out, and recommended by Chortle, The Independent and The Telegraph.
The Team
Alex Cartlidge, Company Director
Alex is a live comedy and TV producer. He founded Country Mile in 2016, after producing ‘Britney’ at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe. He ran our monthly charity gig ever since, before expanding to a full production company in 2019.
Alex is also a graduate of the National Film & Television School. He was most recently the Head of Comedy Development at TV & film comedy & animation production company Blink Industries.
Kathryn Craigmyle, Company Director
Kathryn is a live producer with over a decade’s experience at the Edinburgh Fringe, on the London comedy circuit and in UK touring. She joined the Country Mile team in 2019, and is now the company’s co-director.
She was the Assistant Producer of the Edinburgh Comedy Awards in 2017 and 2018, and was the Live & Virtual Event Manager for three years. As of February 2022, Kathryn works full-time as the Comedy Programmer at Soho Theatre.