After Dinner SpeakersFelicity Ward is a multi-award winning Australian comedian, actor and writer.
Felicity has toured her award-winning, sell-out shows worldwide, winning the hearts of audiences and critics everywhere she performs.
Now London-based, Felicity has appeared on Australia’s Spicks and Specks, The Ronnie Johns Half Hour, Good News Week, Talking About Your Generation, Thank God You’re Here, The Librarians, The Project and Ronny Chieng: International Student, along with multiple appearances on The MICF Oxfam Gala and MICF Comedy All-Stars.
Felicity has also appeared in two feature films: Any Questions For Ben? (AUS) and The Inbetweeners Movie 2 (UK).
Following the success of her 2014 ABC documentary, Felicity’s Mental Mission, Felicity was handpicked by the BBC in 2015 as one of the new faces of UK comedy starring in her own Live From the BBC special – the only Australian selected to be part of this new comedy series.
She is a regular face on many other international TV shows, including:
- Russell Howard’s Good News (UK)
- Alan Davies As Yet Untitled (UK)
- The John Bishop Show (UK)
- Mock the Week (UK)
- Gotham Comedy (US)
- Make You Laugh Out Loud (UK)
- Sam Delaney’s News Thing (UK)
- Access All Areas (CAN)
Felicity Ward is a Chortle UK Club Comic of the Year nominee and has been nominated in Australia for ‘Best Comedy‘ at Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Adelaide Fringe Festival, and won ‘Best Australian Act‘ at Perth Comedy Festival and Sydney Comedy Festival, twice.
In 2018, Felicity recorded her first BBC Radio 4 series, ‘Appisodes‘ and was a regular co-host of ‘The Guilty Feminist Podcast‘.
Felicity supported Maria Bamford on her UK tour and opened for Amy Schumer at Soho Theatre in London.
Felicity taped her first Live At The Apollo Special and completed a sell-out Edinburgh Fringe Festival season in her show ‘Felicity Ward: Busting a Nut‘. The show was nominated for the most prestigious comedy award, ‘Best Comedy at Edinburgh Fringe Festival‘.
Recognised as one of the best Australian female comedians, Felicity Ward’s fast-paced, warm stand-up sets cover everything from health and wellbeing, feminism, parenting, modern life and everything in between, making her suited for a wide variety of corporate events.
