Anna Thomas
- Welsh
- Stand-up comedian and writer
Press clippings
Kiri Pritchard-McLean hosts BBC stand-up show Live From Merthyr Tydfil
Kiri Pritchard-McLean is to host a stand-up showcase for BBC One Wales, with Live From Merthyr Tydfil headlined by local acts Morgan Rees and Owen Money, as well as featuring Ignacio Lopez, Priya Hall, Anna Thomas, Esyllt Sears, Mel Owen and reigning BBC New Comedy Award winner Paul Hilleard.
British Comedy Guide, 11th April 2025BBC New Comedy Awards 2024 open for entries
Entry is now open for the BBC New Comedy Awards 2024, with the deadline for acts to put themselves forwards being 30th June.
British Comedy Guide, 20th May 2024'Why would you not want to be woke?' Inside the TV comedy workshops infuriating the right-wing press
They've been called 'a disaster for the arts' and lambasted for 'pursuing a heavily woke agenda'. So what actually happens at a comedy workshop? Our writer joins 30 working-class standups determined to break into TV.
Rachael Healy, The Guardian, 29th February 2024Carmarthen gets a comedy festival
Russell Kane will headline a bill that also incudes Flo & Joan, Hal Cruttenden, Noise Next Door, Anna Thomas and Steffan Evans.
Chortle, 19th September 2023Anna Thomas on her whirlwind year
Anna Thomas, who is from Burry Port, recently released her first BBC short film - Lady Bigfoot - and has been talking about her life and her advice for comedy hopefuls.
Sam Cook, Wales Online, 26th July 2023The Sean Lock Comedy Award launched by Channel 4
Channel 4 has announced The Sean Lock Comedy Award, which will showcase talented new writers and performers "who embody the alternative comedic spirit of Sean and Channel 4".
British Comedy Guide, 17th July 2023Lady Bigfoot review
It could be straight out of Jane Austen: a girl is infatuated by a boy from afar but dare not declare her love for fear of being ostracised by what society might say. Only this girl is a yeti with a penchant for knitting, who'd be driven out of her home in the Welsh woodlands if exposed by the amateur cryptozoologist on her tail.
Chortle, 5th July 2023BBC New Comedy Award winner Anna Thomas & Paul Allen pilot new shorts
BBC New Comedy Award winner Anna Thomas and Paul Allen, one of the writers of The Cleaner, have made Lady Bigfoot and Grandfather Rights, new comedy shorts for BBC Wales.
British Comedy Guide, 23rd June 2023BBC Comedy Festival 2023: Stand-up showcase 2 review
Seems like the TV comedy industry don't much like watching live comedy. The second stand-up showcase of the BBC comedy festival in Cardiff was a sparsely attended affair, not even half-filling the intimate Clwb Ifor Bach.
Steve Bennett, Chortle, 28th May 2023Jiksaw names its ones-to-watch 2023
Creative studio Jiksaw has revealed the 17 comedians who form its Faces Of Comedy 2022 cohort, a list of up-and-coming comedy talents to watch out for in 2023.
British Comedy Guide, 6th December 2022