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PHILIPPA
FORDHAM
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Philippa Fordham is a comedy writer and performer and recently co-wrote and performed in her own four-part comedy sketch show - FORDHAM AND LIPSON for Radio 4, which was aired in November 2007. Subsequently sketches from the show were selected for Radio 4’s ‘Pick of the Week’ for two consecutive weeks.
Currently Philippa has a writing commission for BBC TV for a one-hour comedy drama, which she has co-written.
She is a regular on the London comedy circuit performing character monologues and sketches.
Work Includes:
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| JOHNNY
ENGLISH |
Working
Title Films, Dir. Peter Howitt |
2002 |
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| TELEVISION |
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| SITTING IT OUT |
Writer - 1 hour Comedy Drama optioned with the BBC |
2008 |
| SINGLED
OUT |
'Shop
Assistant' Starring Kris Marshall, Dir. David
Kerr |
2005 |
| THIS
IS DOM JOLY |
BBC2
– series B, Dir. Richard Webb
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2003 |
| WILD
WEST |
BBC1,
Dir. Jonathan Gershfield
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2002 |
| HARRINGHAM
HARKER |
BBC2,
Dir. David Kerr |
2002 |
| MR
CHARITY |
BBC1,
2 Episodes, Dir. Nick Wood
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2001 |
| PEOPLE
LIKE US |
BBC2,
Dir. John Morton
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2001 |
| BARBARA |
Carlton
TV, Dir. Nick Phillips |
2000 |
| GIVE
US A CLUE |
Grundy
Television for ITV, Guest |
1997 |
| TIBS
AND FIBS |
Channel
5 – Guest
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1997 |
| NIGHT
FEVER |
Channel
5 – Guest, 2 Episodes
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1997 |
| GOOD
STUFF |
BBC2
– Davina McCall
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1996 |
| THIS
MORNING |
ITV
– Guest
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1996 |
| SEX
FILES |
UK
Living – Guest |
1995 |
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| RADIO |
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| THE FORDHAM AND LIPSON SHOW |
BBC Radio 4 - Writer / Performer |
2007 |
| THE FORDHAM AND LIPSON SHOW PILOT |
Edinburgh Festival BBC Radio 4 - Writer / Performer |
2006 |
| LOOSE
ENDS |
Regular,
BBC Radio 4 - Writer / Performer |
2005-2007 |
| STRUCK
OFF & DIE |
BBC
Radio 4 various - Writer / Performer
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2000 |
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| THEATRE
(includes) |
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| CHARACTER MONOLOGUES & SKETCHES |
London Comedy Circuit, Writer/Performer |
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| FORDHAM AND LIPSON - HE
BARKS, SHE BITES |
Edinburgh
Festival Pleasance, Soho Theatre, Kings Head Theatre, Gatehouse Theatre, New Wimbledon Theatre, Hen &
Chickens - Writer / Performer |
2002-2006 |
| EALING LIVE |
Ealing Studios, Character Monologue - Writer/Performer |
2003 |
| PROBE
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Soho
Theatre |
2002 |
| ORANGE
GIRLS |
Tristan
Bates Theatre
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1998 |
| THE
RORY BREMNER SHOW |
Hackney
Empire |
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| GIRLS
WITH BIG JESTS |
Edinburgh
Festival, Kings Head Theatre, Riverside Studios
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1995-1996 |
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| AWARDS
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| Nominated
for ‘Dubble Act Award’ –
Edinburgh Festival 2005 |
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Listed Perrier Best Newcomer for ‘Girls
with Big Jests’ – Edinburgh Festival
1995 |
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REVIEWS
EVENING STANDARD - Bruce Dessau
“Mature character comedy…a dark delight…great”
THE STAGE
"a well crafted sketch show that hits the audience right where it laughs
Fordham and Lipson know their audience, as the peals of laughter attested"
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH - CELEBRITY CHOICE - Edward Petherbridge
"They're so wonderful...real people grotesque-ified, deliciously dark to the downright silly"
EVENING STANDARD THURSDAY 23RD FEBRUARY 2006
CRITIC’S CHOICE TOP FIVE COMEDY SHOWS By Bruce Dessau
Fordham & Lipson
New Wimbledon Theatre, SW10
Philippa Fordham and Simon Lipson first came up with their battle-of-the sexes sketch show, He Barks, She Bites, in the early Nineties and have now refined and revived it. Expect a mixture of instantly recongnisable characters, tart observations and modish dark humour on the nature of the mating game. |
