Brady Coyle Awarded the Tim Sims Encouragement Award

The Ontario Arts Foundation recently announced that Brady Coyle is the 2024 recipient of the Tim Sims Encouragement Award. The Tim Sims Encouragement Award honours a promising Canadian comedic performer who is in the early stages of their career. Brady was selected for the $2500 award by the faculty of Humber College’s Comedy Writing and Performance program.

“It’s a huge honour to win the Tim Sims Encouragement Award, and incredibly flattering to have my name put alongside the hilarious individuals who have previously won this award,” said Brady Coyle. “This achievement has given me the confidence to continue pursuing comedy, and not go back to post-secondary for a fifth time. Thank you so much.”

Brady Coyle is a recent honours graduate of the Humber College Comedy Performance and Writing Program. Throughout this past year, Brady has opened for Danny Jolles, Sam Norton, and Martha Chaves. In 2023, Brady won the Vinny Vinelli’s Comedy Clash for Cash, and placed 3rd in Folk’N Comedy’s Best Set competition. Brady was a semi-finalist in the Comedy Bar’s Comedy Brawl and Absolute Comedy’s Prove You’re A Comic competition. Brady can regularly be seen performing stand-up, improv, and sketch comedy across Toronto.

You can read the full announcement here.