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Yim's career began in the mid-2010s, in indie stand-up shows in Toronto . They then were named to the Bob Curry fellowship for The Second City and worked as a juror for the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival.[3] [4] In 2017, Flare named them one of Canada's Top 100 Notable Women.[5] They have also written for a number of publications, especially on topics of Korean-Canadian identity and racism in pop culture, including Vice and The Globe and Mail .[6] [7] [8]
In 2019, they were awarded the 2019 Canadian Women Artists' Award by the New York Foundation for the Arts .[9] In May that year, their play Not Only Is Everyone As Wonderful was produced at the National MFA Playwrights Festival .[10]
In 2020, they were hired by Saturday Night Live , the only new writer to be hired for the show during that hiring season and the first writer to identify as non-binary (a non-binary cast member wouldn't come until two years later with Molly Kearney ).[11] In 2023, within the second-half of season 48 , Yim became a writing supervisor for the show.[12]
Personal life [ edit ]
Yim uses they/them pronouns .[13] [14] They graduated from Toronto French School in 2013.[15] They have a bachelor's degree in media , gender and English from the University of Toronto and a Master of Fine Arts from NYU Tisch School of the Arts .[16]
References [ edit ]
^ Nestruck, J. Kelly (18 June 2021). "Bonjour-Hi, Celeste Yim! Meet the Toronto writer behind SNL's most hilarious, heartfelt and curiously Canadian pandemic moments" . The Globe and Mail .
^ Nelson, Jenny (March 10, 2017). "Celeste Yim (@celestrogen) on Activism and Bits" . Vulture .
^ "#HowIMadeIt: Celeste Yim, Comedian" . Flare . Archived from the original on 2021-08-30. Retrieved 2021-08-30 .
^ "Why People Who Know Better Still Laugh at Asian Accents" . Vice .
^ Yim, Celeste (25 November 2016). "Queen's U: Race-based costumes are always terrible - and damaging" . The Globe and Mail .
^ "Celeste Yim" . The Strand .
^ Milligan, Kaitlin. "Playwright and Screenwriter Celeste Yim Receives 2019 Canadian Women Artists' Award" . BroadwayWorld .
^ "Introducing | Playwright and Screenwriter Celeste Yim Receives 2019 Canadian Women Artists' Award" . Nyfa . August 20, 2019.
^ "Meet 'SNL' writer Celeste Yim, Emmy nominee behind 'It Gets Better' and more memorable sketches" . EW.com .
^ "Pedro Pascal/Coldplay". Saturday Night Live . Season 48. Episode 12. February 4, 2023. Event occurs at Closing credits. NBC.
^ "21 LGBTQ artists bringing IDGAF queer energy into mainstream culture in 2021 | CBC Arts" .
^ "Bio" . Celeste Yim .
^ "The Official Toronto French School Alumni Page on Facebook" . Facebook . Archived from the original on 2022-04-27.[user-generated source ]
^ Macdonald, Cynthia. "The Serious Business of Being Funny" . University of Toronto Magazine .
External links [ edit ]
R e t r i e v e d f r o m " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Celeste_Yim&oldid=1188657404 "
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