Twenty years, 16 Postcodes, one city. In her debut storytelling show, Jessica Regan (BBC, Channel 4, The Guilty Feminist) shares lessons lived and learned from a life in no particular order. Each show is drawn from true tales of love and landlords, of mice and men and more, told with help from the audience who will play their part in her odyssey as she moves North, South, East and West, finding out which is best. This is a journey through an impenetrable city with an all-too-open heart. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll rent cos you can’t afford to buy…
In 2018, Jessica Regan idly totted up all the places she’d lived in London and realised it was 16. Stuck in London in the pandemic, feeling disillusioned like so many, she started to explore her neighbourhood on foot, thinking of all the places she’d lived in London from the council flat block, the fancy west London period conversion, the friends’ interim sofa-beds, the green of Greenwich and the grey of Acton: how could one city hold so many different homes for one person? While these different abodes reflected uncertainty and struggle, they also promised adventure and discovery; each postcode had held a defining experience in some shape or form – be it funny, sad, or dramatic.
16 Postcodes is about finding joy, even in the darkest moments. It’s about seeing the city we live in anew and falling in love like you’ve never been hurt.
Jessica is well known for her award-winning work as a series regular on the BBC’s Doctors, alongside her extensive television career (Ill Behaviour, Call The Midwife, Peep Show). She has also performed on prestigious stages in the UK and the US (Royal National Theatre, Bristol Old Vic, Wyndham’s in the West End, BAM in New York and The Wallis Annenberg in LA. A prolific audio artist, Jessica appears in multiple computer games (Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla, Baldursgate 3, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt) and has voiced numerous audio books to great acclaim (Strange Sally Diamond by Liz Nugent being one of Audible’s top audio books of the year).
Jessica is a regular contributor for hit podcast The Guilty Feminist.
