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Cathryn Summerhayes
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Adam
Kay
Scriptwriter, performer & author.
Adam Kay is an award-winning writer and performer. His debut book, This is Going to Hurt, is a literary sensation: a Sunday Times number one bestseller for a record-smashing nine months, selling over a million copies in the UK and translated into 33 languages (and counting).
It won a record four National Book Awards in 2018 (Book of the Year, Non-Fiction Book of the Year, New Writer of the Year, Zoe Ball Book Club Book of the Year) as well as Sunday Times Humour Book of the Year, Blackwell's Debut Book of the Year, iBooks Book of the Year, two Books Are My Bag Awards including Reader’s Choice, and Esquire Magazine’s Best Biography Prize.
Adam is currently adapting This is Going to Hurt for TV as a major eight-part BBC comedy-drama, produced by Sister Pictures with Adam serving as executive producer.
Twas The Nightshift Before Christmas, Adam's follow up gift title, is packed full of hilarious and heartbreaking stories of those who spend their festive season on the NHS's front line. It was published in October 2019 and went straight in at Number 1 on the Sunday Times Hardback Non-Fiction chart, subsequently alternating between the Number 1 and Number 2 spots throughout the Christmas period and into 2020.
Adam writes extensively for the media, principally for the Sunday Times, where he is a columnist. He is also a hugely experienced television writer and script editor, with credits including Mitchell & Webb, Very British Problems, Mrs Brown's Boys, Crims (co-creator), Mongrels, Up The Women, Bounty Hunters and Child Genius.
He is an “electrifying" (Guardian) live performer, and his sell-out 2018/9 tour of This is Going to Hurt was one of the biggest comedy tours of the year, seen by in excess of 100,000 people, including performances at the Hammersmith Apollo.
He is a frequent voice on Radio 4 and on television is equally at home being sensible (Newsnight, Peston on Sunday, The Big Questions) or less so (The Russell Howard Hour, 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown).
For literary event enquiries, please contact Alex Fane at Fane Productions: alex.fane@faneproductions.com
For all other live apperances and corporate enquiries, please contact Lee Martin at Gag Reflex: lee@gagreflex.co.uk
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Theatre, Film and TV
Jessica Cooper
+44 (0)20 7393 4488
Email Jessica Cooper -
Books
Cathryn Summerhayes
+44 (0)207 393 4281
Email Cathryn Summerhayes -
Original Audio & Podcasts
Alice Lutyens (Audio & Podcasts)
+44 (0)20 7393 4400
Email Alice Lutyens (Audio & Podcasts)
Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and entirely loveable.
Stephen Fry
on This Is Going To Hurt
'Absolutely packed with facts... Entertaining and highly informative'
The Daily Mail
on Kay’s Anatomy: a complete (and completely disgusting) guide to the human body
As hilarious as it is heartbreaking – and it IS heartbreaking (also hilarious).
Charlie Brooker
on This Is Going To Hurt
Hilarious and heartbreaking - I howled, yelped and occasionally choked with laughter. This book may hurt, but in an important and necessary way.
The Times
on This Is Going To Hurt
CV
Book
Writer
Writer & Editor
Television
Writer & Creator
Original comedy series about a young man sentenced to two years in a Young Offenders Institution.
Additional Writer
Comedy action & adventure series starring Jack Whitehall.
Comedy about a loud-mouthed Irish matriarch.
Comedy series about a group of friends hanging out in Ancient Rome.
Comedy series about two flatmates trying to entertain themselves.
Comedians and celebrities talk about the peculiarities of the British psyche.
Comedy about a divorcee whose new relationship is threatened by his ex-wife.
Nominated for Best Situation Comedy at the Writers Guild Awards 2014.
Original BBC puppet comedy series.
Theatre
Writer & Performer
Starting with a run at the Edinburgh Fringe, before moving to the Soho Theatre then graduating to a four-month residency at the Garrick Theatre and a UK tour of the country's largest theatres, the absolute sell-out This is Going to Hurt LIVE was one of the most watched comedy shows of the year.
***** 'Blissfully brilliant' - Mail on Sunday
**** 'An artful night of the darkly funny, the impish and the
impassioned' - The Times
Additional Writer
Comedy sketch show, created by and starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb.
Broadcaster BBC