“Alex Bertulis-Fernandes was probably the most talented writer of the night, packing her set tightly with smart, elegantly-crafted gags from dating-based wordplay to darker material about the morning-after pill, delivered with a fake innocence.” - Chortle

CV

2024

• Became a Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year Finalist

• My work-in-progress show ‘Feminist Edgelord’ at Leicester Comedy Festival was selected as a BBC Radio Leicester ‘One to Watch’.

• Performed with ‘FOC IT UP’ at Soho Theatre.

2023

• Became a Channel 4 Sean Lock Bursary Finalist

• Became a Beat The Frog World Series Finalist

• Shortlisted for the BBC New Comedy Awards

• Selected for VAULT Festival’s Comedy UnRepped showcase

• Took Restless Bitch Face to VAULT Festival

• Became a Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year Semi-Finalist

• Performed as part of 2 And A Half Indians at Angel Comedy

• Performed at the Edinburgh Festival and had my jokes featured in The Guardian and The Telegraph

2022

• Took White Chicks 2 to Soho Theatre

• Became a Leicester Square New Comedian of the Year Quarter-Finalist

2021

• Became a So You Think You’re Funny? Semi-Finalist

• Performed Funny Femmes with Charlie George and Sharlin Jahan.

• Won RISE & SHINE’s Second Birthday Competition to create the podcast pilot Funny Bitches with fellow comedians Charlie George and Mary O’Connell.

• Took a split bill, White Chicks 2, to Edinburgh with Sharlin Jahan.

2020

• Became a 2Northdown New Act Semi-Finalist

• Quantum Leopard winner

2019

• Started stand-up

• Selected for Soho Young Company’s Comedy Lab Plus

• Featured on Union JACK Radio

“Alex’s material’s so prescient at the moment...so many good lines in that set....I laughed a lot...I just thought there was an awful lot of astute material there...and a really great performing style.”

- Sioned Wiliam, Former Commissioning Editor of Comedy for BBC Radio 4