David Sedaris has announced a 20 date UK tour for 2022 which starts on Sunday 10th July at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall and culminates on 2nd August at Cardiff’s St. David’s Hall. The celebrated writers run includes the rescheduled dates at London’s Royal Festival Hall on 30th & 31st July and Manchester’s The Lowry on 1st August. The tour is preceded by a new book in June 2022 entitled ‘Happy-Go-Lucky’

David Sedaris is one of America’s pre-eminent humour writers. He is the master of satire and one of today’s most observant writers addressing the human condition. Sedaris has been nominated for five Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Word and Best Comedy Album. His audio recordings include “David Sedaris: Live for Your Listening Plea- sure” and “David Sedaris Live at Carnegie Hall.” Since 2011, he can be heard annually on a series of live recordings on BBC Radio 4 entitled “Meet David Sedaris.”

His recent books are The Best of Me - a collection of 42 previously published stories and essays and a second volume of his diaries A Carnival of Snackery, Diaries (2003- 2020) and Calypso, another collection of essays, was a New York Times best-seller, and a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. The audiobook of Calypso was also nominated for a 2019 Grammy for the Best Spoken Word Album.

In 2019 David Sedaris became a regular contributor to CBS Sunday Morning, and his Masterclass, David Sedaris Teaches Storytelling and Humor, was released. There are over 16 million copies of his books in print, and they have been translated into 32 languages. He has been awarded the Terry Southern Prize for Humor, Thurber Prize for American Humor, Jonathan Swift International Literature Prize for Satire and Humor, Time 2001 Humorist of the Year Award, as well as the Medal for Spoken Language from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In March 2019 he was elected as a member into the American Academy of Arts & Letters.  In 2020 the New York Public Library voted Me Talk Pretty One Day as one of the 125 most important books of the last 125 years.

He and his sister, Amy Sedaris, have collaborated under the name “The Talent Family” and have written half-a-dozen plays, which have been produced at La Mama, Lincoln Center, and The Drama Department in New York City. These plays include Stump the Host, Stitches, One Woman Shoe, which received an Obie Award, Incident at Cobbler’s Knob, and The Book of Liz, which was published in book form by Dramatists Play Service. 

Sedaris is also the latest guest on the Adam Buxton podcast, where he talks about tackling litterbugs near his home in Sussex, the death of his father and much more. Listen here.

An Evening With David Sedaris dates: 

JULY

Sun 10th                        EDINBURGH – Usher Hall

Mon 11th                       NEWCASTLE – Tyne Theatre

Wed 13th                       DUBLIN - NCH

Fri 15th                          LIVERPOOL – Olympia

Sat 16th                         BRIGHTON – Dome

Sun 17th                        GLASGOW – Theatre Royal

Tues 19th                      BEXHILL – De La Warr Pavilion

Wed 20th & Thurs 21st   LONDON – Cadogan Hall

Fri 22nd                         POOLE - Lighthouse

Sat 23rd                        BATH – Forum

Sun 24th                        CAMBRIDGE – Corn Exchange

Mon 25th                       BIRMINGHAM – Symphony Hall

Tues 26th                      NOTTINGHAM – Royal Concert Hall

Wed 27th                       YORK – Barbican

Fri 29th                         GUILDFORD – G Live

Sat 30th & Sun 31st      LONDON - Royal Festival Hall (RESCHEDULED DATES)

AUGUST

Mon 1st                         MANCHESTER - The Lowry (RESCHEDULED DATE)

Tues 2nd                       CARDIFF – St. David’s Hall

TICKET LINK: www.myticket.co.uk/artists/david-sedaris

David Sedaris picture: Jenny Lewis