Celya AB | |
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Born | [1] | September 8, 1995
Nationality | French |
Occupation | Comedian |
Website | www |
Celya AB (born 8 September 1995) is a French stand-up comedian, writer and actress based in England. She won the Best Newcomer Chortle Award in 2022.
Celya AB was born and brought up in Paris in a French-Algerian family. [2] Her family lived in the suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis. [3] She moved to Birmingham in 2014. [3]
She discovered stand-up on a trip back to Paris and did her first gig in Birmingham. [3] She made her stand-up debut at Sutton Coldfield's Comedy Junction in early 2017, encouraged by local comedian Karen Bayley. [4]
In 2019 she won the Birmingham Comedy Festival Breaking Talent Award, and was a finalist at the Funny Women awards. [5] [ better source needed ]
In 2022 she won the Best Newcomer Award from Chortle. [2] She has appeared on BBC One as a finalist in the BBC's New Comedy Award 2021, which was won by Welsh comedian Anna Thomas. [6]
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic she did not make her debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe until August 2022 [7] with her show Swimming. In 2023 she performed the show Second Rodeo and in 2024 - Of All People. [8]
Celya AB has cited Dylan Moran and American actress and comedian Maria Bamford, as well as French trio Les Inconnus and the late humourist Pierre Desproges, as formative influences. [9]