Tom Read Wilson has announced his debut UK tour with The A - Z of Me. The run arrives ahead of his Edinburgh Fringe engagement at Gilded Balloon at The Museum EDINBURGH, with tickets already on sale for that stretch. Remaining performances will follow on Wednesday 24 June at 11am.
He said, “I am thrilled to the marrow to be setting off on my debut tour of the UK.” He added, “It has been a pipe dream for as long as I can remember.” Those lines turn the announcement into more than a scheduling note: this is the first time the show is being pushed beyond a single festival booking.
Edinburgh dates run 5th to 16th August
The Edinburgh leg spans 5th to 16th August, giving the tour 12 dates in one city before the wider on-sale. For anyone trying to book, the immediate practical split is simple: Edinburgh is live now, while the rest of the tour waits for Wednesday 24 June at 11am. That staggered release is the only hard booking instruction in the announcement.
The venue named for the run is Gilded Balloon at The Museum EDINBURGH. The show is described as a very intimate revue, which makes the scale more interesting than the route. A small-room piece being launched as a UK tour is not the usual sequence; it suggests the production is being sold on personality and structure rather than volume.
The A - Z of Me expands first
The A - Z of Me is framed as an irreverent, whistle-stop tour of the alphabet, with the alphabet revealing the revue letter by letter and word by word. Wilson said, “It is a very intimate revue so sharing it will be a most personal passion project.” That matters because the material is built around him rather than around a large cast or a long-run stage machine.
Wilson’s wider CV explains why the tour can move as a live proposition at all. He has worked across TV, stage, voiceover and writing, appeared on Celebs Go Dating on E4, won Celebrity Mastermind on BB1 and Richard Osman’s House of Games on BBC1, and has two picture dictionaries tied to his Word of Day social series. Those credits are the business case behind the booking, but the new information today is the route: Edinburgh first, broader sale next.
Wednesday 24 June on sale
The next move for ticket buyers is the on-sale time on Wednesday 24 June at 11am on Tom Read Wilson's website. That is the moment when the rest of the tour becomes available, and it is the piece that turns an announcement into an actual purchase window. For now, Edinburgh is the only fixed run with dates attached, and the debut UK tour is moving from idea to inventory one release at a time.
