Zabrina Douglas Explained

Zabrina Douglas, also previously known as Zabrina Chevannes, is a Canadian stand-up comedian.[1] Her comedy album Things Black Girls Say: The Album received a Juno Award nomination for Comedy Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2023.[2]

Douglas, a registered nurse, performed occasional stand-up comedy sets at Kenny Robinson's Nubian Disciples nights for Black Canadian comedians in the 2000s, and was a nominee for the Tim Sims Award in 2008.

She broke through to wider success in 2020 as the headliner of Laughter from the Frontlines, a virtual comedy show organized by Daniel Woodrow's Unknown Comedy Club featuring frontline health care workers performing comedy and storytelling about coping with the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] She subsequently organized Things Black Girls Say, a regular show at Toronto's Comedy Bar, and recorded her sets at the April 15 and 16, 2022, shows for release as an album.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Glenn Sumi, "Health care workers get the last laugh at new comedy club". Now, July 6, 2021.
  2. https://www.cbc.ca/music/junos/news/here-are-all-the-2023-juno-nominees-1.6724343 "Here are all the 2023 Juno nominees"
  3. Glenn Sumi, "The best things to do in Toronto on Easter weekend: April 14-17". Now, April 14, 2022.