Sara Pascoe
Sara is a British writer, stand-up comedian, singer/songwriter and actor. Showbiz and music are in her genes: her father was the jazz musician Derek Pascoe, once vocalist in seventies teen pop group Flintlock and her great-grandmother was the music writer Rosa Newmarch, one of the first English critics to champion Russian and Slovak music
Nominated for best show at the 2014 Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Awards and winner of the 2014 Chortle Breakthrough Award, Sara Pascoe has been working as a comedy actor, sketch performer, improviser and writer since 2006, when she joined the Newsreue topical sketch show. She started stand-up in late 2007 and the following year was a runner-up in the Funny Women competition and placed third in the So You Think You're Funny? new act competition.
In 2009, she had a regular role in the Channel 4 sitcom Free Agents as the disrespectful assistant, Emma
"Keeps the audience on its toes intellectually without stinting on humour" - The Guardian
