Jessica
Butcher

Writer & Actor

Jessica is an award winning writer and actor. Her first play, SPARKS, which she both wrote and performed, sold out at the Edinburgh Festival and was recorded for BBC Radio 4. Her next show, CANON, developed with Jess Edwards and Anoushka Lucas, is currently being co-produced by Trafalgar Entertainment. Jessica is also developing a new TV musical and a book. 

She is also a specialist in charity communications, helping organisations (such as Scope, Greenpeace, the RSPB, Action Aid and the Helen Bamber Foundation) craft statements, messages and articles about delicate or difficult topics in an engaging, sensitive way.

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“Some shows feel too beautiful to write about. Sparks feels like one of those shows.”

Exeunt Magazine
on Sparks

“Jessica Butcher as Lucy turns in a performance of warmth, wit and heart breaking world weariness. She perfectly captures the breezy naive bravado of a 17 year old girl setting off in the big wide world. [...] This show has a real emotional punch to it.”

Alan Chadwick in The Daily Mail
on Where Do Little Birds Go?

“She is served supremely well too by Jessica Butcher as the fictional Lucy Fuller. [...]It’s all so unshowily vivid that you feel like you are there with her. [...] This spare, sobering, evocative hour of theatre is a low-key triumph.”

Dominic Maxwell in The Times
on Where Do Little Birds Go?

“Butcher is a superbly natural storyteller.”

Amy Stutz
on Sparks

CV

Theatre

Rhino
Jess 
Director Natasha Rickman
Kings Head Theatre
Offside
Keeley/ Lily 
Director Caroline Bryant
Futures Theatre
Where Do Little Birds Go?
Lucy Fuller 
Director Sarah Meadows
Longsight Theatre/Heavy Weather and Duck Down Theatre
A Clockwork Orange
Dr Brodsky 
Director Paul Taylor-Mills
LOST Theatre Company
Antigone
Chorus 
Director Tom Littler
Southwark Playhouse

Writer & Performer 

Sparks
Director Jessica Edwards
Starring
  • Jessica Butcher
  • Anoushka Lucas
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    Show of the week at Vault Festival 2018, Winner of Best Musical from Musical Theatre Review, Sell Out Show, Edinburgh 2018.

    VAULT Festival 2018

    Writer 

    Boots
    Director Lucy Wray
    Writer Sacha Voit

    Co-written with Sacha Voit, nominated for two Off West End Awards.

    Bunker Theatre
    September Skies
    Director Yasmeen Arden

    As part of the Kensington Karavan project

    Small Truth Theatre
    Yanina and Elsa
    Director Lisa Cagnacci

    As part of the Kensington Karavan project


    Small Truth Theatre

    Television

    Eastenders
    PC Annika Fairbank 
    Director Thomas Hescott
    BBC

    Commercial

    Commercial Recalls