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Shazia Mirza

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, 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.