Celeste Yim

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

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]

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]