Shrewsbury International Comedy Festival has announced yet more acts for its flagship Gala Show at Theatre Severn this summer.

Taking place on Sunday 16 July in a Live At The Apollo style format, Tom Wrigglesworth, Jessica Fostekew and Adam Rowe join the already announced Clinton Baptiste and Paul Sinha.

Yorkshire funny man Tom Wrigglesworth became a national have-a-go-hero when he rescued a little old lady from the jaws of Virgin train bureaucracy, only to be arrested for begging. His subsequent sell-out show, Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Return Letter To Richard Branson, bagged him the Chortle Award for Best Show 2010. He is also the winner of Channel 4's So You Think You're Funny? competition and his BBC Radio 4 comedy Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang Upsran for five series. His television credits include Russell Howard’s Good News, the Edinburgh Comedy Show, Live At The Comedy Store and Engineering Giants. 

Described by The Guardian as wearing ‘her smarts on her sleeve,’ Jessica Fostekew’s acting roles include the films Greed and Official Secrets, as well as Motherland and The Trouble With Maggie Cole on TV. As a comedian she has appeared on Live At The Apollo, QI and Sara Pascoe’s BBC Two series Out Of Her Mind. Hench, Fostekew’s own show, was nominated for the Dave Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show in 2019 and won Best Show in the 2020 Chortle Awards. She hosts her own podcast Hoovering, which in less than a year has racked up half a million downloads and is a regular host of BBC R4 Extra’s Comedy Club, as well as a co-host of The Guilty Feminist podcast.

Click here to book tickets for the SICF Gala Show on 16 July.