Jessica Fostekew

Jessica Fostekew is a comedian, actor and writer. Guardian say she “wears her smarts on her sleeve, great stuff” and Fest called her “consistently hilarious.”

Jess had a smasher of an Edinburgh run and first ever tour in 2017 and 2018 with her show The Silence of the Nans. In the last year she starred in Sharon Horgan’s Motherland on BBC 2 and is an episode guest lead in Series 5 of Cuckoo on BBC and Netflix in January 2019.

She hosts her own podcast Hoovering all about eating which in less than a year has racked up nearly half a million downloads.

Jess is a regular co-host of behemoth podcast The Guilty Feminist and is all set to host a brilliant new podcast from the same producers in 2019 called X, Y, Z Boom.

She’s also been the regular host for several years now of BBC R4 Extra’s Comedy Club in the closing hours of weeknights.