The EVCOM Fellowship Awards recognise and reward outstanding contributions to the communication industry. This annual event which takes place at the House of Lords brings together leading professionals from across the industry to celebrate the outstanding work and contributions by Fellows who are chosen as exemplars of the power of communication. The EVCOM Fellowship Awards continue the tradition of our industry to celebrate innovative, visionary and outstanding achievement in communication.
Previous communication Fellows have included Simon Weston CBE, Alexander Armstrong, Naga Munchetty, Julian Pullan, Hugh Bonneville, John Simpson CBE, Baroness Martha Lane Fox, Lord Attenborough CBE, Bob Geldof KBE, Sir Trevor MacDonald, Dame Anita Roddick, Lord Michael Grade and Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson.
And we are delighted to announce that this year, the communication Fellowship will be going to Rory Bremner. Impressionist, comedian, satirist, translator, columnist, writer, presenter, ballroom dancer, Rory Bremner is a mainstay of the corporate event world, and a champion for the industry!
Rory is perhaps best known for writing and starring in the political satire show Bremner, Bird and Fortune, for nearly twenty years a mainstay of Channel 4’s comedy output. He won back-to-back BAFTAs for Britain’s Top Comedy Performance, together with three Royal Television Society and two British Comedy Awards.
He turned his hand, or should that be feet, to Strictly Come Dancing, and regularly appears on TV and Radio, as a performer as well as presenter, while early TV credits include Spitting Image, Whose Line is it Anyway, Have I Got News for You, Mock the Week (where he was team captain for two series), The News Quiz, The Now Show, 7 day Sunday and QI. He appeared more often than any other guest on both Wogan and Parkinson. He often featured on The Andrew Marr Show, where he reviewed current political events through his many characters.
With John Bird and John Fortune, he also wrote and appeared in numerous specials, including Between Iraq and a Hard Place, My Government and I and Silly Money, and a book, You Are Here, published in 2005 (‘a stockpile of satirical ammunition’- Daily Telegraph).
He has made documentaries on Scottish Soldiers and Diaries for BBC4, traced his family history on Who Do You Think You Are (BBC), explored his own self-diagnosed ADHD on Radio 4 and starred in the hugely successful 2011 series of Strictly Come Dancing with partner Erin Boag. He does live tour shows, often with Jazz Performer Ian Shaw and comedienne Hattie Heyridge, and in 2011 began a new satirical show for Radio 4, Tonight, with Andy Zaltzman.
Meanwhile, he’s translated three operas: two from French, Carmen (2001) and Orpheus in the Underworld (Scottish Opera, 2011) and one from German (Der Silbersee,1997) together with the Bertolt Brecht play A Respectable Wedding (Young Vic, 2008). He is a regular contributor to The FT, The Telegraph, The New Statesman and Radio Times, for whom he has interviewed Michael Parkinson and Sir David Frost.
Rory will address aur guests at the House of Lords on the 12th December, sharing insight into his career journey and learnings. We will also announce our two industry Fellows, one who represents the corporate film industry and another who has made strides in, and for, the events industry. Guests will then enjoy a three course Christmas lunch overlooking the Thames, as we toast to the end of the year!
Rory will address aur guests at the House of Lords on the 12th December, sharing insight into his career journey and learnings. We will also announce our two industry Fellows, one who represents the corporate film industry and another who has made strides in, and for, the events industry. Guests will then enjoy a three course Christmas lunch overlooking the Thames, as we toast to the end of the year!
Be the first to hear from our new Fellow Rory Bremner, and find out who our illustrious industry Fellowships are going to, by joining us for this festive sign off of 2024. Tickets are available here.