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Celeste Yim

Korean-Canadian writer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

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Yim (right) with the band MUNA in 2024

Career

Yim's career began in the mid-2010s, in indie stand-up shows in Toronto. They 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 written on topics of Korean-Canadian identity and racism in pop culture for publications including Vice and The Globe and Mail.[6][7][8]

In 2019, Yim was awarded the Canadian Women Artists' Award by the New York Foundation for the Arts.[9] In May of that year, their play Not Only Is Everyone As Wonderful was produced at the National MFA Playwrights Festival.[10]

In 2020, Yim was hired as a writer for Saturday Night Live, becoming the show's first writer to identify as non-binary.[11] In 2023, during the second half of season 48, they became a writing supervisor for the show.[12]

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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]

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