Celeste Yim

Celeste Yim is a Korean-Canadian comedian and writer.[1][2]

Career

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

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
  1. "Toronto playwright Celeste Yim joins Saturday Night Live | CBC Comedy".
  2. "What Kind Of Sponge Is Spongebob SquarePants? A Tweet Has Sparked A Massive Debate About The Iconic Character". Bustle.
  3. 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.
  4. Nelson, Jenny (March 10, 2017). "Celeste Yim (@celestrogen) on Activism and Bits". Vulture.
  5. "#HowIMadeIt: Celeste Yim, Comedian". Flare.
  6. "Why People Who Know Better Still Laugh at Asian Accents". Vice.
  7. Yim, Celeste (25 November 2016). "Queen's U: Race-based costumes are always terrible - and damaging". The Globe and Mail.
  8. "Celeste Yim". The Strand.
  9. Milligan, Kaitlin. "Playwright and Screenwriter Celeste Yim Receives 2019 Canadian Women Artists' Award". BroadwayWorld.
  10. "Introducing | Playwright and Screenwriter Celeste Yim Receives 2019 Canadian Women Artists' Award". Nyfa. August 20, 2019.
  11. "Meet 'SNL' writer Celeste Yim, Emmy nominee behind 'It Gets Better' and more memorable sketches". EW.com.
  12. "Pedro Pascal/Coldplay". Saturday Night Live. Season 48. Episode 12. February 4, 2023. Event occurs at Closing credits. NBC.
  13. "21 LGBTQ artists bringing IDGAF queer energy into mainstream culture in 2021 | CBC Arts".
  14. "Bio". Celeste Yim.
  15. "The Official Toronto French School Alumni Page on Facebook". Facebook. Archived from the original on 2022-04-27.
  16. Macdonald, Cynthia. "The Serious Business of Being Funny". University of Toronto Magazine.
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