Following yet another sell-out and critically acclaimed run in Edinburgh this August, one of the Fringe’s, and now the UK’s, fastest-growing favourite comedians, Felicity Ward, embarks on her first ever UK tour this autumn with her funniest show to date, 50% More Likely To Die.

Off the back of her highly successful Australian documentary Felicity’s Mental Mission (ABC1/ABC2) about mental illness and irritable bowel syndrome, Felicity delves into the depths of her depression, anxiety and IBS. A follow-on from last year’s total sell-out five star show What If There Is No Toilet?  (it was the third-best reviewed show at the Fringe last year!), which recently won the New Zealand Comedy Festival Best International Show, Felicity has proven herself to be… well, neurotic, eccentric and disturbed… but also one of the funniest and finest comics around.
Much to her surprise, more people saw last year’s show than her immediate family and a guy called Gavin. After reading studies that people with anxiety and depression are 50% more likely to die in any number of circumstances, and always one to flog a dead horse, Felicity wondered if she could go further into mental illness (and whatever else she could get her filthy hands on) and still make people laugh.  As she was writing this show, she left her bag on a bus containing her laptop, keys, wallet and some pretty fancy headphones, and that made her write a show about a lady with control issues who loses her bag. Weaved together it makes for a lo-fi stand up thriller with some mental health jokes thrown in for good measure. 
The last 12 months have kept Felicity extremely busy; she headlined Live from the BBC on BBC2 and BBC3, starred in Josh (BBC3) in November, twice appeared on Make You Laugh Out Loud (Channel 5) and five times on Sam Delaney’s News Thing (RTUK), featured on Museum of Curiosity and David Baddiels’ Don’t Make Me Laugh (Radio 4), Ronny Chieng’s sitcom pilot Ronny Chieng: International Student (ABC)and in Sydney's Just For Laughs Gala (The Comedy Channel, Australia). She has performed at Rotterdam Comedy Festival, Udderbelly Festival in Hong Kong and toured What If There is No Toilet? in Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland and Wellington, where it won Best International Show.