Celya AB
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Celya AB | |
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| Born | September 8, 1995[1] |
| Occupation | Comedian |
| Website | celya-ab |
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][6]
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.[7]
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic she did not make her debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe until August 2022[8] with her show Swimming. In 2023 she performed the show Second Rodeo and in 2024 - Of All People.[9]
In March 2026, Celya AB was confirmed to be part of the writing team for the first series of Saturday Night Live UK.[10]