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Shazia Mirza is a great comedian and columnist. She is an accomplished awards host or stand up act for any corporate occasion.
Trained at the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in London, Shazia works full time as a writer, actor and stand up comedian.
Shazia began stand up comedy in September 2000 and since then shot up the ladder, picking up along the way the 2001 Hackney Empire Best New Act competition at the London Comedy Festival and winning Metro Magazine’s People’s Choice Best Comic Award at the London Comedy Festival 2002.
Shazia is in huge international demand with coverage from press, TV and radio across the world. She has performed stand up shows in Germany, Canada, Denmark, Italy, Sweden, USA, France, Ireland, Belgium and Holland. In the UK Shazia is picking up TV credits and is constantly working the UK comedy circuit. Highlights have included a rave performance as part of Eve Enslers V Day event at the Royal Albert Hall where Shazia wrote and performed a monologue which received a standing ovation from the cast which included Isabella Rossellini, Maureen Lipman, Rita Tushingham, Meera Syal, Dannii Minogue and Anita Dobson. Other events have included the Arosa Comedy Festival, Switzerland, a solo show in San Francisco, a sell out run in Paris and for the British Council she has performed in Pristina, Kosovo. Shazia has also to date performed 3 sell out tours of Sweden.
Shazia has appeared on Have I got News For You, Joan Bakewell’s Taboo, Richard & Judy, and was the subject of a BBC 2 First Sight documentary. She has also been seen on Richard & Judy on their successful Book Review slot and CBS in the USA have screened a profile on her for 60 Minutes which is an enormous accolade. Shazia has recently finished filming stand up for The World Stands Up, for Comedy Central USA, 60 Acts in 60mins for the BBC and Comedy Casino for Belgium TV.
Shazia's show was a sell out at the Edinburgh Festival in 2005 with her full length show at The Pleasance. Since then she has performed at the national theatre tour with 1001 Nights Now which is a story-telling theatre piece produced by Northern Stage in conjunction with Nottingham Playhouse and Deptford Albany. Directed by Alan Lyddiard. In the play Shazia also performed one of her own monologues commissioned for the piece.
In 2006 Shazia started writing a fortnightly column for the New Statesman, and in 2010 she became a weekly columnist in the Guardian Weekend Magasine with her column, 'Diary of a Disappointing Daughter'. She was also the narrator for Muslim Driving School on BBC2, and in April 2010 was named as one of the Top 10 Female Comedians by The Observer.
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"Shazia Mirza has won rave reviews for her frank and honest stand up comedy routines about being a young Muslim woman in Britain.
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"Her laconic one-liners represent something quite unique in modern comedy. In these fraught times, she actually manages to make being a Muslim woman seem wonderfully life-enhancingly funny. Anglo-Islamic understanding is now even more elusive than before, but if anything, that makes Shazia comedy even more valid, and even more vital."
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