A young Julie Walters, apparently.

Hello. Thanks for taking a look at my site.

I love acting and have been an actress since I was 22 — I’ll let you guess my age now. I began my career in children’s theatre, where I always seemed to get cast in the comedy roles. I assumed it was because I was ugly. When I finally asked, Helen Lomas, the casting director for Theatre for Youth, told me it was because I reminded her of a young Julie Walters. I have carried that compliment with me through my whole career, despite the fact I am not so young anymore.

Writing means a lot to me too. In 2022 I wrote a one-woman show called Jemima Smallbones, about a frustrated middle-aged woman who has come into money and reminisces about, among other things, never quite having been a lesbian. I performed it at Camden Fringe in 2022 and at Brighton and Guildford the following year. I’ve since rewritten it for television, and we’ve filmed a pilot.

Alongside the writing, I work the standup open-mic circuit and put new comedy stories in front of audiences as often as I can. My current hour is called Sara Louise Aston Wants To Be Famous — a charming and colourful ride through the bonkers measures I have taken to try and become famous. It hasn’t happened yet. But God loves a tryer.

Standup · Fairy · BGT

I have epilepsy and whenever I’m doing live work I’m always aware that I might have a seizure. I had one years ago on stage and it was very humiliating. So when my Fairy character emerged — a slightly naughty fairy first reviewed in Edinburgh in 2019 — I decided to put it in the act. Fairy can mentally disappear. If she does, I tell the audience to grab a drink, call it an interval, and we’ll be back. It tends to go down well.

I’ve auditioned for Britain’s Got Talent seven times and got tantalisingly close twice. I’m still working on it. Getting onto the Palladium stage is on my bucket list.

HeartsArts & the open-mic life

When you’re not famous it’s hard to get the MC gigs, so in 2025 I started my own monthly night at Mudlarks Café in Hertford — HeartsArts — booking poets, musicians and comedians from across the south-east, and MC-ing the lot. I want acts to play, get the train home in time, and have fun. That’s it.

Other things, briefly

• · Born in Welwyn Garden City; lived in Dubai, Buckinghamshire and London before settling in Hertford.
• · Children’s theatre, commercials, episodic TV including Birds of a Feather.
• · Awards-winning writer for the TV adaptation of Jemima Smallbones.
• · Semi-finalist, Museum of Comedy Not So New Comedian of the Year, 2025.