About
✨women in comedy on the rise 2026
✨BBC Comedy Collective Shortlist 2025
✨DIRECTOR UK INSPIRE MENTORSHIP SCHEME 24-25
Hannah Berry George (AKA HBG) is known for her dark humour, sharp wit, and playful, off-kilter comedy.
shaped by a unique background in law, journalism, stand-up, sketch, and improv, she brings her distinctive vision to all her projects. Her work has won multiple awards (including a Cannes Lions and three Creative Circles), been screened internationally (including by the BFI and NOWNESS), and garnered tens of millions of views.
HBG is an NFTS grad and Cinesisters core member.
THE HIGHLIGHTS 🔥
Extensive experience working with high-profile talent, right through to new talent, influencers, real people, a baby, butterflies, horses, a dog, but not nearly enough cats
Mentored by BAFTA-winning director Simon Hynd (Ghosts, Motherland, There She Goes)
created and directed HERSTORY - the first-ever docuseries commissioned by MBC for Shahid, the Middle East's largest svod
Names I’ve worked with in no particular order 👀
Cynthia Erivo, Katherine Ryan, Fern Brady, Aisling Bea, Adjoa Andoh, Alfred Enoch, Caitriona Balfe, Little Mix, Gok Wan, Bel Powley, Jessica Brown Findlay, Toby Stephens, rosie jones, Michelle de Swarte, Nina Wadia, Paterson Joseph, Frankie Bridge, Angela Scanlon, Juliet Cowan, Vick Hope, STEPHEN LIBBY, Susan Lynch, Munroe Bergdorf, Awkafina, Priyanka Chopra…
awards
3 x Creative Circle Awards, including a Silver, for The Department of Opportunities’ Class Polish Campaign
1x Cannes Lions Grand Prix for Libresse’s #PainStories
Campaign’s Ad of the Day and Pick of The Week for British Army’s ‘A Soldier is a Soldier’
1 x Adcan for AshoKA
FEATURED IN
Little black book . shots . promo news . david reviews . girls in film . plain magazine . booooooom TV . alhurra . the evening standard . metro . campaign
premieres, screenings + festivals
BFI Network nights . nowness . funny or die . DC Shorts . EFN . The Shortest Nights . FilmPride . Short Com . Norwich queer international festival of film . Sunderland shorts film festival . Queer Film and Arts Fest