• Adam Kay

    A BAFTA-winning, multi-million-bestselling author, TV writer and performer.

    Picture of Adam Kay wearing a white t-shirt and jeans, on a red background. Photograph by Charlie Clift.
  • Australia & New Zealand live tour - This is Going to Hurt

    Following an absolute sell-out tour of Australia and New Zealand in 2024, This is Going to Hurt is back by popular demand. (Also in Singapore, but I'm not doing a separate section just for that.)

    Capitol Theatre

    8th April 2025

    Story House

    12th April 2025

    Playhouse

    15th-20th April 2025

    Odeon Theatre

    22nd April 2025

    Norwood Concert Hall

    23rd April 2025

    Canberra Theatre

    25th April 2025

    Anita's Theatre

    26th April 2025

    City Hall

    28th April 2025

    Enmore Theatre

    29th April & 1st May 2025

    Regal Theatre

    3rd-4th May 2025

    Powerhouse

    7th-8th May 2025

    Bruce Mason Centre

    12th-13th May 2025

    Opera House

    14th May 2025

    Isaac Theatre Royal

    15th May 2025

    Glenroy Auditorium

    16th May 2025

    Heaphy Room

    18th May 2025

  • A Particularly Nasty Case - UK book tour

    A murderously funny evening to launch Adam Kay's debut crime novel A Particularly Nasty Case. Expect the hilarious and the horrifying.

    The Lowry

    21st August 2025

    Edinburgh

    McEwan Hall

    23rd August 2025

    Komedia

    27th August 2025

    Wilton's Music Hall

    29th August 2025

    New Theatre Royal

    30th August 2025

    Junction

    31st August 2025

    The Stables

    1st September 2025

    Memorial Hall

    2nd September 2025

    Leeds

    City Varieties

    3rd September 2025

    Northern Stage

    4th September 2025

    Chelmsford Theatre

    5th September 2025

  • UK live tour - Undoctored

    The best-selling show of Edinburgh Fringe 2023 is coming to a theatre somewhere near-ish you, following a sell-out West End season. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll wish he'd stop telling the degloving story.

    Music Hall

    27th September 2025

    Royal Spa Centre

    4th October 2025

    Soho Theatre Walthamstow

    21st-22nd November 2025

  • Books

    Links are to bookshop.org - any sale from this page generates a small commission payment, which is donated to The Lullaby Trust, supporting families bereaved of babies and young children.

    Holding cover of A Particularly Nasty Case

    When a noxious hospital consultant dies of a heart attack, fellow doctor Eitan Rose smells foul play. But nobody else does, including some quite crucial players like the police and the coroner. Adam Kay's first novel - coming 28th August 2025.

    Cover of Dexter Procter

    A book about an absolute genius who becomes a doctor. Adam has no comment to make about whether or not it was based on him.

    Cover of This is Going to Hurt

    Were three million book-buyers wrong? You decide.

    Cover of Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

    The perfect surgical-stocking filler.

    Cover of Dear NHS

    100 famous names writing about the NHS. All profits to NHS Charities Together and The Lullaby Trust - £600k and counting.

    Cover of Undoctored

    Both the prequel and the sequel to This is Going to Hurt, about medical school and life after medicine.

    Cover of Kay's Anatomy

    Aged 7-12* and want to know how the human body works? You've come to the right place. (*Or a parent who never quite understood.)

    Cover of Kay's Marvellous Medicine

    Why did hairdressers cut off their customers' legs? Why did patients gargle with wee? This disgusting/informative book explains it all.

    Cover of Kay's Brilliant Brains

    For World Book Day 2023, learn about ten ingenious geniuses.

    Cover of Amy Get Eaten

    Learn about everything ever invented from the daft to the disgusting to the downright dangerous.

    Cover of Amy Get Eaten

    The first picture book from Adam Kay and Henry Paker. About a piece of sweetcorn going on a poo-normous adventure.

  • Biography

    Adam Kay is a BAFTA-winning author, TV writer, comedian and former junior doctor. His first book, This is Going to Hurt, spent over a year at number one in the Sunday Times bestseller list, was translated into 37 languages, won ten national awards, and sold over three million copies. His subsequent adult nonfiction books, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas and Undoctored were also Sunday Times number one bestsellers. He edited Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You, raising over £400,000 for charity. He is also one of the country's bestselling children's authors, with books including Kay's Anatomy (the fastest selling kids' non-fiction book of the decade), Kay's Marvellous Medicine, Kay's Brilliant Brains, Kay's Incredible Inventions and picture book Amy Gets Eaten. His books have sold over five million copies in total.

    As a live performer, Adam has sold-out numerous West End seasons and UK tours. His tour of This is Going to Hurt was attended by over 300,000 people and Undoctored was the bestselling show of the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe.

    Adam's awards for TV writing include BAFTA and Writers Guild awards for adapting This is Going to Hurt for the BBC and AMC. He is a columnist for the Sunday Times, and a proud patron of The Lullaby Trust, The Laura Hyde Foundation and Doctors in Distress, where he founded the National Memorial Tree Planting Campaign for healthcare workers who have lost their lives by suicide.

  • Contact

    For TV appearances / live / corporate work

    Lee Martin

    lee@gagreflex.co.uk

     

    For books / journalism

    Cath Summerhayes

    cathryn.summerhayes@curtisbrown.co.uk

     

    For TV / film writing

    Jess Cooper

    jessica.cooper@curtisbrown.co.uk

     

    For press enquiries

    Dusty Miller

    dustymillerPR@gmail.com

    07955 904 482