Introduction
Jamie Loftus (born 1993) is a writer, stand up alternative comedian, animator, podcast co-host, and actor based in Los Angeles. She is known for her absurd work, such as her one-woman shows I Lost My Virginity August 15, 2010 and Boss, Whom is Girl. She has also written comedic articles, and written and starred in video content, for media sites such as Adult Swim, Comedy Central, Paste, and Super Deluxe.
Along with fellow comedian Caitlin Durante, she co-hosts The Bechdel Cast, a weekly podcast about the representation of women in film.
Career
Her often absurdist humor, sometimes bordering on performance art and documented for websites such as Paste, has included pretending to date an American Girl doll, joining Mensa as a joke, and attempting to eat a copy of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest.
She has written and performed several one-woman live shows. One is called I Lost My Virginity August 15, 2010. Another show, Boss, Whom is Girl, was workshopped at the Lyric Hyperion Theatre in Los Angeles. It was then brought to the United Kingdom with shows in London and at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe. Its run at the Fringe was recommended by newspapers such as The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and The Daily Express.
In April 2018, a three-part web series she wrote and starred in, Irrational Fears was released on Comedy Central Digital.
In summer 2018, she was hired as a writer for the long-running Adult Swim show Robot Chicken.
On January 1 2020 Loftus released a four-part podcast entitled "My Year in Mensa" that chronicles the events surrounding her applying to join Mensa for the purpose of writing a series of humorous articles for Paste Magazine.
Credits
Live credits
- Death Wish – Writer/Performer/Director (2014)
- Basketball City – Writer (2015)
- Bad Art – Writer/Performer (2015)
- I Lost My Virginity August 15, 2010 – Writer/Performer (2017)
- The Hacker Who Codes – Writer/Performer (2018)
- Boss, Whom is Girl – Writer/Performer (2019)
Film/Television credits
- Boston PD: Zamboni Crimes Division – Writer/Animator/Voice Actor (2016)
- Rat Teens – Writer/Animator/Voice Actor (2017)
- Funny or Die Presents – Actor (2017)
- Super Deluxe – Writer/Actor (2017–18)
- Irrational Fears – Writer/Actor (2018)
- Robot Chicken – Writer/Actor (2018)
- All About Nina – Comedy Consultant/Voice (2018)
- Human Kind Of – Writer/Voice Actor (2018)
- The New Negroes – Actor (2019)