shaziamirza
Shazia Mirza is a very funny award winning British Asian stand up comedian from Birmingham England. She works all over the world and has toured the US, Sweden, Denmark, France Holland and Germany. She has appeared on CBS 60 Minutes, NBC's Last Comic Standing, and Have I got News for You (BBC).
Shazia could have married a rich man and lived in a mansion on The Bishops Avenue, with servants, bidets, and horses. But instead she chose to drive up and down the country for as little as ten pounds, staying in dirty lurid bed and breakfasts trying to make people laugh.She thought of giving up, but no Muslim man wants to marry her, now that's she's dabbled in jokes and fingered a few white men on the 38 bus.
Winner Columnist of the Year PPA Awards 2008
Semi-finalist NBC's Last Comic Standing 2008
Winner GG2 Young Achiever of the Year Award 2003
Winner Metro Magazines in association with Jongleurs Comedy Clubs People's Choice Best Comic Award 2002
Winner London Comedy Festival and Hackney Empire 2001
Runner Up Birmingham Comedy Festival 2001
Television
Last Comic Standing (NBC 2008)
Splitting Cells -Broadcast sitcom pilot (BBC3 2007)
F**K off I'm a Hairy Woman (BBC)
Richard and Judy ( Channel 4 roving reporter)
28 Acts in 28 Minutes (BBC)
The World Stands Up (Paramount Comedy)
Stockholm Live (TV2 Sweden)
60 Minutes (CBS)
Have I got News for You (BBC)
Live
Pakistan- World Performing Arts Festival (2008)
'Fun'-National Tour (2007)
USA- San Francisco Herbst Theatre (2007)
Switzerland- Arosa Comedy Festival (2007)
India- Tour (2006)
Sweden- National Tour (2006)
Canada- Winnipeg Comedy Festival (CBC 2005)
Holland- National Tour (2005)
Canada- Halifax Comedy Festival (CBC 2004)
Sweden- National Tour (2004)
Also performed in Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Paris, Kosovo, Dubai, Luxembourg
Theatre
1001 Nights Now, The National Theatre Tour
Vagina Monologues, The Royal Albert Hall. Directed by Eve Ensler
The Tribe of Beorma, Women and Theatre Tour.
" Always kills an audience with her biting deadpan observations .
" Her laconic one-liners represent something quite unique in modern comedy .
" Very funny...This woman knows how to grab and keep control of a room .
" Mirza performs with a distinct comedy voice that should put other comics to shame. She's breaking taboos, material which becomes endearing, fun and goddamn hilarious in her hands. .
" In that global menagerie of Comedy Mirza is that rarest of rare creatures. Mirza is a proven draw .
