Ms Helen Lederer

Career: comedienne and actress; early work at the Comedy Store and similar venues; Theatre incl: Bunny in House of Blue Leaves (Lilian Bayliss Theatre), Educating Rita (with Julian Glover, qv), Doreen in Having A Ball (Comedy Theatre), Vagina Molologues (West End) 2002 (and V-Day Celebrations Albert Hall London), Full House (Palace Theatre Watford), The Hairless Diva (Palace Theatre Watford); Television appearances incl: The Young Ones, Girls on Top, The French and Saunders Show, Flossie in Happy Families (BBC 2), 5 series of Naked Video (writing and performing own material in between sketches, BBC 2), Wogan, Hysteria, The New Statesman, Bottom, Absolutely Fabulous (BBC), One Foot in the Grave (BBC), presented Butter Fingers (Taste CRN), occasional presenter Heaven and Earth Show (BBC 1), cmmd to write sitcom for BBC2 2001-02; Radio female actress in BBC Radio 4's In One Ear (Sony Award for Best Comedy); other radio work incl: writer and performer two series of Life With Lederer (Radio 4), short story readings (Radio 3 and 4), Comic Cuts (Radio 5), reg writer and performer of comic monologues Woman's Hour (Radio 4), wrote and featured in All Change (Radio 4, Pick of the Week) 2001; Film Solitaire for Two, Dance to your Daddy, Speak Like a Child (Screen Two)

Books and Publications: Coping With Lederer, Single Minding (1995); contrib author in Girl's Night In/Big Night Out; author of numerous articles for New Woman, Options and She magazines, The Guardian; regular writer for Independent on Sunday LIFE and travel, Mail on Sunday travel, Woman and Home, EVE