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A native of Northern California, Jennifer Ann Burton is a graduate of the UCLA Theater Department and trained with The Groundlings and Upright Citizen’s Brigade in Los Angeles. She performed for two years at the internationally acclaimed Boom Chicago Comedy Theater in Amsterdam, where she learned three words of Dutch and wrote and performed for Comedy Central Holland before returning to Los Angeles. She was flown to New York by NBC to audition for “Saturday Night Live.” She has performed at Improv Olympic and Second City, and was a member of the long-running improv group People’s Republic of Improv. She was a participant in the critically acclaimed show Mortified and is a regular participant in the Hollywood Fringe Festival, performing with the amazingly talented group Lost Moon Radio. She performs regularly with and is a member of the teaching staff at Westside Comedy in Santa Monica, and a performer and writer on the developing sketch comedy pilot “Titled Sketch Project” headed by Dan Oster (MADTv). Her television credits include “The Office,” “Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior,” “Hot In Cleveland” and “Joey.” This year she sold and developed a comedy pilot script with NBC and Hazy Mills Productions. She can currently be seen performing at Westside Comedy Theater with Mission IMPROVable, and with BoomTang! at iOWest. She also dabbles in stand-up, and deeply enjoys writing about herself in the third person.

“...the amazing Jennifer Burton is one of the funniest things I’ve seen on stage in a good long while.”

-Backstage