Francesca is an award-winning comedian who has toured internationally including sell-out runs at the Edinburgh Festival, the Melbourne Comedy Festival and the prestigious Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal. She has recently completed a 33-date UK tour and two Off-West-End London runs at the famous Tricycle Theatre and the legendary Hackney Empire.
She’s a regular face on TV and is most known for her starring role in Ricky Gervais’ EXTRAS. Ricky is a huge supporter of hers and hand-wrote the role for her. He also appeared on her non-broadcast chat-show where she interviewed him (click here to view).
Francesca has also guested on many prime-time chat-shows including THE FRANK SKINNER SHOW (click here to view). Last April, she made global headlines when she became the first Olympic Torch Bearer to pull out of the London relay in protest over China’s treatment of Tibet (click here to view).
Francesca has performed all over the world including Ireland, South Africa, Canada, America – on Broadway - and at last year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where she performed alongside actress, Emma Thompson.
She is currently working on her sitcom pilot which is being produced by Charlie Hanson, the Golden-Globe winning producer of ‘Extras’, has been offered a run of shows in New York, and is developing a feature documentary called WHAT THE HELL IS NORMAL?! which will see her travel around looking for a ‘normal’ person… she’s never met one, have you?
Oh yeah, and she has mild cerebal palsy but she much prefers the word ‘wobbly’ as she explains on Irish chat-show, The Café (click here to view).
Francesca became a patron of Pegasus Theatre because she’s a real fan admiring the fact that as an organisation we think outside the box and present different voices that people otherwise wouldn’t hear.
You can visit Francesca’s website by clicking here.