Comedian, writer and producer …
Funny Mummy, author, and improv queen
Jenny is an internationally award-winning stand-up comedian, cabaret artist, actor and screenwriter. She’s performed throughout Australia, Canada, the USA and the UK, and is known for her instinctive, warm and interactive style of comedy.
Having trained with some of the world’s most renowned improv and comedy teachers, Jenny takes the best teachings and adds a splash of joyful spontaneity to create a signature style all her own.
She’s a comedy performer, writer and producer, blending stand-up with improvised musical comedy and heart-warming hilarity.
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Hilarious and heart-warming? Check. Award-winning? Yep, you can check that too!
Awards don’t mean much when you’re on the stage solo, but let’s face it – they sure don’t hurt.
Jenny has written and performed a number of original shows, collecting a few gongs along the way, including:
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winner of Best Variety Show – United Solo Festival, NYC
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winner of the Award for Excellence in Cabaret – Melbourne Fringe Festival
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nominated for a Green Room Award for Cabaret Writing
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winner of the ABC iView Pitch Perfect Competition, which sent her to a Writers Residency at Marseille WebFest
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finalist in Screenworks/AACTA Regional Landscapes Competition for "Off Grid", a dramedy currently in development as a TV series
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winner of Best Web Series - WorldWide Women’s Festival
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winner of Best Conceptual Comedy Web Series - Palm Springs International Comedy Festival
She’s also trained and performed in improvisation and sketch comedy writing with some of the world’s best:
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Second City (USA)
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Loose Moose Theatre (Canada)
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Gary Austin (founder of The Groundlings in LA)
Bringing communities together through laughter
Not content with writing, producing and performing one-woman shows, Jenny is also the founder of Funny Mummies™ – a vibrant online community designed to improve women’s mental health through comedy.
As a passionate mental health advocate, Jenny wants to use laughter as a healing tool to bring mums together through shared experiences.
As a mum of three, and step-mum of another three, Jenny knows that family life isn’t always like the Brady Bunch. And it doesn’t always define us. (Or not all of us, at least.)
That’s why Funny Mummies™ doesn’t just get mums in the audience laughing hysterically. It also empowers mums to get out of their comfort zone and strut their stuff on stage.
Funny Mummies produces live stand-up shows performed by mothers for mothers. In September 2020, the Funny Mummies™ Comedy Gala was the first post-COVID-19 tour to hit the road in Queensland, and has now reached nearly 50 remote communities and more than 4,000 audience members.
(Sometimes, the audience was bigger than the town population itself!)
Funny Mummy: a memoir
Jenny Wynter’s memoir “Funny Mummy” was released in 2019.
Within its pages, Jenny shares her experiences navigating life's tough moments by using comedy as pain relief. Because while her life certainly hasn’t gone to plan, there’s been one constant throughout – laughter.
Jenny shines light into the darker parts of life, from grief and divorce to parenthood.
This funny, poignant, and insightful read will leave you inspired, leave you lighter and most importantly, leave you laughing.
Get in touch if you want to order multiple copies, or a custom print run for your event.
Joy generator, audience connector + improv queen
Jenny Wynter is pure joy.
My face hurts.
Talkfringe
More than laughs, Funny Mummy is also quite the page turner. In fact, Jenny moves through life with such passion, energy, humour and heartbreak, I needed ventolin to keep up. Fabulous!
Denise Scott
What a talent!! Truly, I was on the sideline of this [TEDx] stage and I’m still in awe of Jenny’s talent – WOW, WOW, WOW!!!
Yas Grigaliunas
Founder and Director, Circonomy
Wynter is a smart and well-versed performer with a likeability that can’t be taught … Jenny Wynter is, quite simply, wonderful.
Fringe Benefits
Jenny Wynter may be the funniest woman in cabaret
Adelaide Now
...had the crowd crying in hysterics. Definitely an act that cannot be missed.
Scenestr Mag