If you are interested in booking any of the comedians that are featured on this website please email me at mullaney3@blueyonder.co.uk and I will be happy to pass on your enquiry.
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If you are interested in booking any of the comedians that are featured on this website please email me at mullaney3@blueyonder.co.uk and I will be happy to pass on your enquiry. | ||
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Leicester Square Theatre Competition 2009: Finalist So You Think You're Funny 2008: Semi-Finalist “Jessica Fostekew is a highly charged motormouth of a comedian, working though her brilliant and brutal material at such a pace that you think she'll run out long before the time is up. Thankfully, she doesn't, and we're treated to twenty odd minutes of raucous stand-up.” – Three Weeks, 2009 “Fostekew leaps into focus first, zealously tripping passions and gripes off her tongue with the disorganised energy of a schoolchild. Unstructured maybe, but [she] manages her set with professional ease, adroitly working audience participation to aid a witty sequence of anecdotes.” – The Skinny, 2009 “Just good, funny, intelligent stuff. Most uncommon” – Julia Chamberlain, Jongleurs 2008 "You were very funny indeed" - Paul Foot, 2009 Jessica has been performing improvised comedy and working as a comedy actress since 2005. In January 2008 she hit the UK stand up circuit like a thunderbolt of joy! She has performed over 300 gigs in her first two years. She gets paid work (opening, support and MC’ing) from promoters such as The Hampstead Comedy Club, The King’s Head, Christian Knowles Productions, Show and Tell Comedy, Oi Oi Comedy and opening twenties for… Good Ship Comedy (formerly the Porthole), Mirth Control, Terry the Stand Up, Blue Light District, Bromley Comedy, A & E Comedy (opening and closing twenties), "There's lovely see", ‘Coventry 'Comedy At', 'the Dry Spot' , Eton and Slough 'Funny Farm's, ‘North West Comedy’, ‘Blue Dog Comedy’ and closing twenties for the ‘Found Object Collective’ amongst many, many, many others. Jessica comes recommended by some big names such as Paul Sinha, Pippa Evans, Dan Atkinson, Andrew O’Neill, Josh Howie, Josie Long and Nick Page. Recently some of Jess’ sketches were short-listed for inclusion in the 2010 BBC Radio 4 ‘Recorded For Training Purposes’. Jess has had a “Night I Died” feature in Timeout and two more features on 'Londonisfunny.com', She was interviewed in March 2010 for their 'Spotlight On': http://londonisfunny.com/features/13752/The_Spotlight_on_..._Jessica_Fostekew In 2009 Jessica wrote, produced and directed ‘Jessica Fostekew and Other Jokers’, a composite show of her stand up, followed by a comedy play/ narrative sketch show, also involving other awesome actors. It was a wicked success and totally sold out the Canal Café Theatre throughout the run, receiving much high praise. Jess also played the lead in a short film “The Truth In The Valley” by the Blaine Brothers which in January this year, came runner-up in the Branchage Festival - Vauxhall 48 Hour Film Challenge. TV work includes performing in ‘Hallo Panda’, a short Channel 4 Film by Charlie Productions and the 2009 BBC comedy ‘Psychoville’, from the makers of The League of Gentlemen. In 2007 Jessica starred in a sell-out run of ‘News Revue’ and still writes for the show. In 2006, sketches collectively known as ‘troublehug’, which Jessica wrote and starred in, were short-listed to win BBC’s Comedy Soup Competition and picked for use by BBC3 at Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2006. Her full and up-to-date acting CV can be found at http://www.spotlight.com/2213-0190-5990.html Finally, she runs and MCs a lovely stand up night on the last Tuesday of every month called ‘House of Mirth’ with Sara Pascoe, at the Betsy Trotwood in Farringdon – recommended by Timeout and London Is Funny.
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Jessica Fostekew