Katy Brand wanted to be an astronaut, but she didn't have the maths, so instead she launched herself into comedy.

On Saturday, June 3 she is heading for Swindon's Arts Centre with her hit Edinburgh Festival show, I Was a Teenage Christian.

The show is a stripped back, honest, and funny exploration of her self-imposed conversion and total immersion in to evangelical Christianity.

Katy said: "One Sunday, aged 13, I went to a local church service and became a fundamentalist Christian. From then on I attended church four times a week. I was an obnoxious, self-important dick, but at least I knew I was going to heaven. Now I'm not so sure.''

The comedian performed her first professional gig in a London pub in 2004, before joining the comedy sketch troupe, Ealing Live!

Following this she toured around the country with her own show and won a British Comedy award for the TV sketch series Katy Brand’s Big Ass Show. That was in 2008 and since then she has written for, and appeared in, numerous films, TV programmes and radio shows.

Katy had her first novel, Brenda Monk is Funny, published in 2014, but she said her main claim to fame was dressing up as Beyonce on national television and very nearly getting away with it…

Katy will be performing at the Old Town theatre in Devizes Road from 7.30pm and tickets are £15.50 from 01793 524481 or visit www.swindontheatres.co.uk