Asha Ward
Asha Ward | |
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| Alma mater | Columbia College Chicago |
| Occupations | Comedian, writer |
| Employer | Saturday Night Live |
Asha Ward is an American comedian and writer. In 2022, she became the youngest-ever writer on the staff of Saturday Night Live.[1][2]
Ward, whose family is from Trinidad,[3] was raised in Maryland.[4] Her parents divorced when she was young.[4]
Ward became interested in performing comedy after taking an improv class at the age of 17.[3] She graduated from Columbia College Chicago in 2021 with a bachelor's degree in comedy writing and performance.[5] As many comedy venues in Chicago had shut down during the COVID-19 pandemic, she left the city soon afterward, staying with relatives in Baltimore and Queens until she could afford to rent a room of her own in Brooklyn.[1]
Ward was working a day job as a receptionist and nights as a stand-up comedian when she got a meeting with Saturday Night Live cast member Ego Nwodim. Ward was hired to write for SNL in December 2022.[1][2] In 2023, she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series.[5][6]
In 2023, Ward was featured by the Just For Laughs comedy festival as one of their "New Faces of Comedy".[4][7]
In March 2024, Ward appeared in a Netflix comedy special, Hannah Gadsby's Gender Agenda, hosted by Hannah Gadsby and also featuring fellow genderqueer comedians Jes Tom, Alok, Chloe Petts, DeAnne Smith, Krishna Istha, and Mx. Dahlia Belle.[8]
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External links
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- Living people
- African-American television writers
- American television writers
- African-American LGBTQ people
- African-American stand-up comedians
- American stand-up comedians
- American comedy writers
- American people of Trinidad and Tobago descent
- Columbia College Chicago alumni
- Comedians from Chicago
- Comedians from New York City
- LGBTQ people from Maryland
- American women television writers
- African-American women comedians
- American comedian stubs