Biography
Jenni was born and educated in Scotland before venturing south to gain a BA (Hons) in English, French and Italian from Durham University. She then hung about in the North East a bit longer in order to gain an MA in Scriptwriting from Newcastle University. She started writing and performing sketch comedy whilst at Durham, then took up stand up during her MA and spent three years performing the two around the UK and at the Edinburgh Fringe. She writes radio and television sketches and sitcoms and writes, edits and performs her own comedy shorts, which can be found here on her website.
Then she has a sandwich and a sleep and does it all again the next day. In 2008 she was a finalist in E4 Radio's search for new comedic talent in their Radio HaHa scheme.
Currently:
ADMIN
Television sitcom
HOMECOMING QUEEN
Comedy feature screenplay
Television sitcom
Full Credits:
2011
JONATHAN WATSON'S BIG SOCIETYContributing writer, The Comedy Unit / BBC Radio Scotland
THE NEWS QUIZ
Additional material for BBC Radio 4
2010
THIS JUST IN
Contributing writer to comedy website/Twitter project for Zeppotron/Channel 4
NEWSJACK Series 2
YO YO GOOD SHOW
Pilot for online comedy series. Writer, director, performer
2009
NEWSJACK Workshop
Invited to join the BBC's writers' workshop
WATSON'S WIND UP
The Comedy Unit / BBC Radio Scotland
Credited writer. Contributed sketch material to two episodes
NEWSJACK Series 1
Contributed sketch material, BBC Radio 7 comedy show
2008
E4 Radio HaHa
One of nine finalists out of thousands of entrants in E4's search for new comic talent.
2006-2008
Edinburgh Fringe
Wrote and performed in numerous critically acclaimed sketch shows at the Edinburgh Fringe with sketch group WitTank and stand up group CoolFun. Performed stand up at the Fringe for last two years as part of PBH's Free Fringe and around the UK.
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