Do you ever feel like you’re barrelling down whatever road your life is on and it’s just not working? Nothing is going right, you keep hearing ‘no’ and you want to bash your head against a bloody wall?

I’ve got a cautionary tale for you – Edinburgh Fringe 2011 was probably one of the worst months of my life. I  broke both feet and was in a lot of pain, I had to cancel shows, I didn’t get reviewed, someone I thought of as a good friend majorly let me down souring the Ed experience even more. Then to top it off I couldn’t find a cheapo package holiday to recover for love nor money.

Apparently every package holiday from the North of England was sold out that week – I was about ready to kill someone frankly.

In a very roundabout way I ended up in NYC with my best friend, where in the space of 4 days  I found a great place to live, a company to sponsor me for a work visa, a theatre has given me 2 nights to perform whenever I choose AND have offered me a regularly monthly ‘sex-themed’ night to present – which makes the work visa waaaay easier to achieve.