Celeste Yim is a Korean-Canadian comedian and writer. [1] [2]
Celeste Yim is a Korean-Canadian comedian and writer. [1] [2]
Yim's career began in the mid-2010s, in indie stand-up shows in Toronto. They then were named to the Bob Curry fellowship for The Second City and worked as a juror for the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival. [3] [4] In 2017, Flare named them one of Canada's Top 100 Notable Women. [5] They have also written for a number of publications, especially on topics of Korean-Canadian identity and racism in pop culture, including Vice and The Globe and Mail. [6] [7] [8]
In 2019, they were awarded the 2019 Canadian Women Artists' Award by the New York Foundation for the Arts. [9] In May that year, their play Not Only Is Everyone As Wonderful was produced at the National MFA Playwrights Festival. [10]
In 2020, they were hired by Saturday Night Live , the only new writer to be hired for the show during that hiring season and the first writer to identify as non-binary (a non-binary cast member wouldn't come until two years later with Molly Kearney). [11] In 2023, within the second-half of season 48, Yim became a writing supervisor for the show. [12]
Yim uses they/them pronouns. [13] [14] They graduated from Toronto French School in 2013. [15] They have a bachelor's degree in media, gender and English from the University of Toronto and a Master of Fine Arts from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. [16]
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