About Alex

Alex Bertulis-Fernandes is a writer, artist and award-winning stand-up comedian based in London. Her work explores her experience of being a neurodivergent and mixed-race woman who struggles with feeling both ‘a bit much’ and not enough. Alex currently has a sitcom sitting with Clapperboard Studios inspired by her lived experience of a psychiatric ward.

Stand-up

• Performed at the Southbank Centre for International Women's Day (2025)

• British Comedy Guide Pro Talent Awards for Performance Winner (2024)

• Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year Finalist (2024) 

• Work-in-progress show selected as a BBC Radio Leicester One to Watch (2024)

• BBC New Comedy Awards Nominee (2024, 2023) 

• Channel 4 Sean Lock Comedy Award Finalist (2023) 

• Beat The Frog World Series Finalist (2023)

• Featured in The Telegraph’s Funniest Jokes of the Fringe (2023)

• Featured in The Guardian (2023)

• Selected for VAULT Festival’s Comedy UnRepped showcase (2023)

• Co-starred in White Chicks 2 at Soho Theatre (2022)

• Won RISE & SHINE’s Competition to create a podcast pilot (2021)

• Selected for Soho Theatre’s Young Company (2019)

"Alex Bertulis-Fernandes was probably the most talented writer of the night, packing her set tightly with smart, elegantly-crafted gags."                                                     - Chortle

Writing

• Comedy short Damsonfield Library screened at BFI Southbank (2025)

• Sitcom sitting with Clapperboard Studios (2024)

• Comedy short Damsonfield Library screened at Cannes Indie Shorts (2024)

• Additional material for Lilly and the Flying Dutchman (2024)

• Additional material for BBC Radio 4's The Now Show (2024, 2021)

• Additional material for TV comedian’s book and stage show (2024, 2021)

• Selected for Edinburgh TV Festival’s The Network (2024)

• Additional material for BBC Radio 4's Dead Ringers (2023)

• Selected for the inaugural ITV Comedy Writers Initiative (2023)

• Additional material for the ITV show Piglets (2023)

• Additional material for BBC Radio 4's The News Quiz (2023)

• Started at the National Film and Television School 

• Additional material for The Legend of Magnus the Good (2022)

• Additional material for BBC Radio Scotland's Breaking the News (2021)

• Additional material for Little Panda in Africa (2021)

• Additional material for SeanceCast (2020)

• Selected for Penguin Books WriteNow (2019)

Art

Alex’s response to an art teacher’s suggestion that she ‘dial down the feminism’ went viral, trended on Twitter and was featured in Newsweek, TIME Magazine, The Guardian and Dazed.