| Celya AB | |
| Birth Date: | 1995[1] |
| Nationality: | French |
| Occupation: | Comedian |
| Known For: | Best Newcomer Chortle Award; Birmingham Comedy Festival Breaking Talent Award 2019 |
Celya AB (born 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.[2] Her family lived in the suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis.[3] She moved to Birmingham in 2014. She is of mixed French and Algerian heritage.[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 also a finalist in the Funny Women awards.[5]
In 2022 she won the "Best Newcomer award" from Chortle.[6] She has appeared on BBC1 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 in Scotland she, like other comedians including Thanyia Moore, did not make her debut at the Edinburgh Fringe until August 2022.[8]
Celya AB has cited Dylan Moran and American comedian/ actress Maria Bamford, as well as French trio Les Inconnus and the late humourist Pierre Desproges, as formative influences.