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Shazia Mirza
SHAZIA MIZRA is a rising star of the comedy circuit and an accomplished awards host or stand up act for any corporate occasion.
Rising Star
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.
Worldwide Star
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.
Television, Edinburgh and Stand Up
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. More recently she has been seen on Richard & Judy again 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 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 performs one of her own monologues commissioned for the piece. Shazia had a hugely successful Edinburgh festival run with her show Fun which she has relatively recently toured with.
“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’s comedy even more valid, and even more vital”
THE GUARDIAN GUIDE
“Shazia Mirza has won rave reviews for her frank and honest stand up comedy routines about being a young Muslim woman in Britain”
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
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