Jessica Fostekew
A show about sexy things (awkward), private things (oh no) and a woman trying to sit on the face of time to keep it still (hot, right?).
You’ve seen Jess on Live at the Apollo, QI and on Harry Hill’s Clubnite amongst other TV shows. She’s a regular co-host of The Guilty Feminist podcast, the host and creator of the Hoovering podcast and you hear her regularly on BBC R4’s News Quiz and The Now Show.
Jess was nominated for the Dave Edinburgh Comedy Award – Best Show 2019 with her last show Hench, and she won Best Show and Best Breakthrough Act in the Chortle Awards 2020.
Rose Johnson
Rose Johnson is a stand-up comedian, writer and actress, who has appeared on Dave's Hypothetical and Late Night Mash, and Apple TV’s Ted Lasso. She writes for BBC1’s Have I Got News For You and C4’s The Last Leg. She's a member of acclaimed sketch group Birthday Girls, whose podcast Birthday Girls House Party has been nominated for both a British Podcast Award and a Chortle Award for Best Comedy.
StandUpLent, a festival within Festival Lent, is a unique international stand-up comedy stage. Its dynamic contents put it on the European map as an amazing development initiative and a walk-through of stand-up comedy action – even on a global scale. Across nine evenings, the audience will have the chance to take in a broad range of comedy that showcases its diversity through thematic evenings – from dark humour evening, comedy from the entire Balkans, English language comedy programme, all the way to talk shows within the comedy genre. Festival Lent also makes sure to promote and develop the stand-up comedy scene, as it provides an opportunity every year for young up-and-coming comedians and new faces on the stand-up comedy scene to present themselves and hone their craft on stage.
StandUpLent comedy shows are in Slovenian. The show Two Englishwomen (GBR) will be in English.
Jessica Fostekew and Rose Johnson
*Events will be held rain or shine. We wish for all our visitors to have a pleasant experience at the show and a good view of the stage, which is why no open umbrellas will be allowed at the venue. We advise wearing weather-appropriate attire and footwear.
