Reviews:

"Brilliant and disturbed...warms the heart and chills the spine at the same time" - Three Weeks

"Pickett is a bright, quick-thinking character comedian with good timing and a talent for physical comedy" - Metro

"If it's distinctive, ethereal comedy you're after, Pickett delivers. For this is a charmingly sweet hour, enchanting, endearing and frequently laugh-out-loud funny...thanks to the rich, unique atmosphere Pickett creates in order to showcase her impressive perfoming talents" -Chortle

"Something quite special...brilliant" - The List

"A newcomer with a future, a sweet, sparkly performer...if the two Vics, Wood and Reeves, had a daughter, then Pickett is what she'd be like" - Independent on Sunday

Past gigs and shows include:

Daft Monkey, The Enterprise, Camden

Vikki Stone & Friends, Leicester Square Theatre, Leicester Place

Pleasance attic, Edinburgh - An Endless Series of Distractions; solo Edinburgh show August 2006

The Warehouse Theatre, Croydon

Too2Much, 11 Walkers Courts, W1 (nearest tube - Picadilly Circus)

Canal Cafe, The Bridgehouse Pub, Delamere Terrace

Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Hill, SW11

The Blue Elephant, 59a Bethwin Rd SE5

The Troy Club, The Bath House, Dean Street, W1, with Andrew O'Neill & Josie Long

Angel Sketch Club - The Camden Head, Camden Passage, Islington N1

Rada, Malet Street, W1

Spank, Downstairs at the Albany

Cardiff University, The Comedy Network

The Enterprise, Chalk Farm, with Simon Brodkin & Tom Meeten

Sit Down Sundays, Landor Theatre, Landor Road, Clapham North

Sketch Etc, Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon, with Ed Weeks, Laura Solon, Matt Green

'Falling down with laughter', The Landor Theatre, Borough, with Alexis Dubus & Si Thomas

Glastonbury Festival

Sketch Etc, Betsey Trotwood in Farringdon

Avalon showcase, downstairs at The Albany, Great Portland Street

"Roisin and friends", The Etc Theatre, Camden, with Roisin Conaty and Marek Larwood

 

Toad in the Hole, The Rosemary Branch, Islington.

Sketch Club, Downstairs at The King's Head, Crouch End.

'The Mystery Club', the Camden Head, Islington, with Tom Bell. Paul Foot and Russell Brand

TV / Film / Radio Work includes:

Project V, FMX / Fremantle Media: www.project-v.net

After You've Gone, BBC 1

My Family, BBC 1

The Weekly Show, Channel 4 Radio

Development work for FAQ U, Channel 4.

Harry Hill's TV Burp, ITV

Deckies, dir. Jeremy Wooding, Spice Factory

Short film for Volkswagon / Swimming Pool Pictures

'Nostradamus' - film, dir. Bryn Higgins, Discovery channel

Voiceover for short film 'The Lighthouse'. Directed by Sabrina Doyle, it won best film at the South London Short Cuts Film Festival.

Resonance FM Radio

Whilst at Cambridge:

Tribute night to the late Dr Harry Porter, a senior member of the club for over forty years. Featuring Footlights performers past and present, including Matt Holness and Richard Ayoade - the team behind Garth Marenghi's Dark Place - and the ever lovely Tom Bell. At the ADC, Cambridge.

Performed to a 500 seat sell-out audience with the Footlights in the 'Durham comedy fest', which I also did in 2002, 2003 and 2004.

January 2004: Love's Labour's Lost, directed by Nick Blackburn. In the Great Hall, Trinity College. I played Katherine and Jaquenetta.

November - December 2003: Alice in Wonderland'  the Footlights pantomime 2003, at the ADC theatre, Cambridge. An original comic script, for which I also wrote the songs. See link for details.

June 2003: Played Phedre in Ted Hughes 'Phedre', at the ADC, Cambridge. Directed by Sabrina Doyle, the winner of the jury prize at the Cologne International Short Film Festival. "stunning" - Cambridge Evening news

November 2002: 'Around the Water' at the Corpus Playroom, Cambridge. A self-written comedy show, in which I also performed."breathtaking...had me choking with noisy laughter" - Varsity

May - October 2002: Cambridge Footlights national tour show 2002 - 'Today of all days'.  Directed by Perrier award winner Paul King. Also featuring Tom Bell of  www.tombell.org. and Ed Weeks of www.sketchetc.com .I wrote for and performed in the show, which toured England and went to the Edinburgh Fringe.                   

May 4th 2002:Footlights Gala Night: Performed alongside comedians such as Armstrong and Miller, Mitchell and Webb (of the recent C4 series, 'Peepshow') Tony Slattery and Garth Marenghi, as a tribute to the late Dr. Harry Porter

January 2002: 'Making Space' - A quartet of new adaptations that marked the reopening of the Corpus Christi Playroom. The opening night was attended by various prestigious alumni and members of the national press.

October 2001 - May 2004: Cambridge Footlights Smokers. These are an hour of new, original comedy, fortnightly at the ADC in Cambridge. "Ruth Pickett was effortlessly sassy and assured" - Varsity

 

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