• 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.
  • Christmas Show - Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas

    A love letter to all those who spend the most wonderful time of the year on the NHS front line, removing babies and baubles from the various places they get stuck.

    Alexandra Palace

    7th December 2024 7pm & 9:15pm

    Rose Theatre

    18-19th December 2024

  • 2024/5 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.

    Cast

    13th December 2024

    Playhouse

    18th January 2025

    Theatre Royal

    19th January 2025

    Assembly Hall

    31st January 2025

    Old Vic

    2nd February 2025

    New Theatre

    7th February 2025

    New Theatre Royal

    8th February 2025

    Theatre Royal

    10th February 2025

    Everyman Playhouse

    12th February 2025

    Corn Exchange

    14th February 2025

    Concert Hall

    18th February 2025

    Eden Court

    19th February 2025

    BEAM

    19th March 2025

    Saffron Hall

    23rd March 2025

    Gaiety Theatre

    25th March 2025

    Aberdeen

    Music Hall

    27th September 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.

    Cover of Dexter Procter

    A brand new 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.

    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 September 2025.

  • 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