Acting

Jackie Blackmore

Biography

Jackie Blackmore (born November 27, 1987) has been a professional actor, improv & physical comedian, award-wining playwright & comedy writer for over 24 years. She also collects sketch comedy groups. She's been in a lot of them: Strapless Comedy, The Skinny, Grimaldi's Asylum, Blackout Broadcast, Off Centre Television, Terribly Inappropriate, One Night Stand, Radio Edit, Tight Corset Theatre, & The Legend of Bonefish. They take her places: The Chicago Sketch Comedy Festival, San Francisco, Montreal, Toronto & Vancouver Sketchfests, Canwest Global Comedyfest, Vancouver International Comedy Festival, Montreal, Toronto, Victoria, Vancouver & Edmonton Fringe Festivals where she regularly headlines sold-out shows. She also does straight dramatic theatre: Proof, The Vagina Monologues, Dancing at Lughnasa, Awkward (her solo one woman show), Dumb Blind Luck, The Good Time Girls & Saucy Bits. She sells things in commercials & plays quirky young mom zombie-killing paramedic cops on Film & TV in shows such as: Loudermilk, Death Note, No Tomorrow, No Men Beyond This Point, Supernatural, Bates Motel, Fringe, V, Psych, and Stargate Universe. She is a past weekly performing Masterclass & Rookie League member of Vancouver Theatresports. Jackie teaches Sketch Comedy Writing at Vancouver Film School & Instant Theatre and is the Director of The VFS Sketch Company where she directs up to 6-9 shows a year.