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Jessica Fostekew

Laughing Horse Competition 2009: Semi-Finalist

Comedy Café New Act Winner, March 2009

Nominated for ‘Best Actress’ in ‘2 Days of Laughter’ Film Competition 2009
So You Think You're Funny 2008: Semi-Finalist

Lion’s Den Gong Show Winner, December 2008

“Intensely Funny….Fireball of Fun” – Timeout, 2009

“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

"You Funny" - Josh Howie, 2009

"I really loved your stuff" - Josie Long, 2009

"Wonderfully creative...a sharp wit. Come back." - Don Ward, 2009

“Really very good” – Stewart Lee, 2008…. “That was brilliant” - 2009

 “A powerful and oddly emotionally-moving performance as monotoned bitter Cockney Connie” – Fringe Report Best Actress Award in Sitcom Trials 2007

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!

Jess performs at big clubs such as Comedy Store (Thursdays), Comedy Café, Knock2Bag, Porthole, Spank, The King’s Head (weekends), Old Rope, The Rose Club and many more. She gets paid work from promoters such as Show and Tell Comedy, Mirth Control, Oi Oi Comedy, Terry the Stand Up, Blue Light District and many others, which includes lots of MC work and mostly opening and middle 20s.

Jessica comes recommended by some big names such as Stewart Lee, Paul Sinha, Pippa Evans, Dan Atkinson, Sara Pascoe, Andrew O’Neill, Josh Howie, Josie Long and Nick Page.

In Edinburgh 2009 Jessica performed two different 25 minute sets in shared shows in PBH’s Free Fringe, both of which received high praise – amongst mountains of other guest spots. She’s currently performing in the highly acclaimed improvised comedy ‘Scenes from Communal Living’ at London’s Ectetera Theatre every Sunday (except in October) until the end of 2009.

In January 2009 Jessica wrote, produced and directed ‘Jessica Fostekew and Other Jokers’, a composite show of her stand up, followed by a comedy play, also involving other splendid actors. It was a wicked success and sold out the Canal Café Theatre both nights, receiving excellent reviews.

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 acting CV can be found at http://www.spotlight.com/2213-0190-5990.html

Jessica runs and MCs a lovely stand up night called ‘House of Mirth’, also with Sara Pascoe, at the Betsy Trotwood in Farringdon – recommended by Timeout.