Celya AB
Celya AB is a French stand-up comedian, writer and actress based in England. She won the Best Newcomer Chortle Award in 2022.
Biography
Celya AB was born and brought up in Paris in a French-Algerian family. Her family lived in the suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis. She moved to Birmingham in 2014.She discovered stand-up on a trip back to Paris and did her first gig in Birmingham. She made her stand-up debut at Sutton Coldfield's Comedy Junction in early 2017, encouraged by local comedian Karen Bayley.
In 2019 she won the Birmingham Comedy Festival Breaking Talent Award, and was a finalist at the Funny Women awards.
In 2022 she won the Best Newcomer Award from Chortle. 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.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic she did not make her debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe until August 2022 with her show Swimming. In 2023 she performed the show Second Rodeo and in 2024 - Of All People.