Arnab Chanda


Arnab Chanda is an English born writer and director.

Career

He was born in England in Pontefract, but left at age 6 and grew up in Saudi Arabia and the US. After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he started doing stand-up comedy in New York City. He moved to London and won the Jongleurs New Act Competition, the Amused Moose Comedy Awards, and was nominated for Best Newcomer in the 2007 British Chortle Awards. He stopped performing stand-up in 2010.

Performances

He has performed stand up on the Comedy Central UK shows The World Stands Up in 2007, Edinburgh & Beyond in 2007, and the Comedy Store in 2008, Russell Howard's Good News, The Stephen K Amos Show, and Chris Moyles' Comedy Empire . He has also appeared on The Jon Richardson Show, The Comedy Cafe with Janice Forsyth, Out to Lunch, 28 Acts in 28 Minutes, and "Many Questions".
His live performances include the Edinburgh Festival in 2006 in "The Comedy Bucket", "Tickets Still Available" with Greg McHugh, Rich Fulcher's "Tiny Acts of Rebellion", the Mighty Boosh Festival in 2008, the Latitude Festival in 2007 and 2008, the Leeds Festival in 2008, The Big Chill Festival in 2008. He was the tour support act for Simon Amstell from 2007 to 2009, as well as Stephen Merchant in 2008.

Acting

His credits include Raj Puri in the ITV2 series Trinity, Edward in the BAFTA nominated independent film Black Pond, Ned in Julia Davis's Hunderby, Danny Bullet in series 2 of Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy, Kris in Series 1 of Dan Clark's How Not to Live Your Life on BBC Three, and was a writer/performer in Comedy Cuts, Splitting Cells, and co-wrote and acted in the short film Old Sea Dog. In 2017, he played the part of "Master Don" in the music video "Steambreather" in the album Emperor of Sand by the band Mastodon, produced by production company Blink. In 2018, he has been the voice of Chuck for the YouTube show, Angry Birds on the Run.

Writing

He was a staff writer for the MTV Europe Music Awards, the BAFTA nominated BBC2 show Never Mind the Buzzcocks, the MTV show "Celebrity Bites", and has written for Dan Clark's How Not to Live Your Life and 3 ), "Comedy Cuts", and "Splitting Cells". He was nominated for a 2018 Writers Guild Award for "Best Online Comedy", for his web series "Three Cool Days". He has also been a guest columnist for The Guardian.

Producing

He was a Producer at BBC Radio Comedy between 2013 and 2016, making Radio 4 series for John Kearns, Liam Williams, Alex Edelman, as well as series 10 and 11 of NewsJack, and series 10 of Chain Reaction.