Brown Women Comedy is coming to
Edinburgh Fringe in Scotland
15th - 25th August | 5:30pm | Hill Street Theatre
Laugh your heart out to an award-winning besharam (shameless) line-up of Indian, Pakistani and South Asian comedians. No topic is too taboo. These women won’t be holding back. Your parents probably won’t approve as you trauma bond watching these six women turn family expectations into comedy gold.
We’re thrilled to be bringing Brown Women Comedy to UK, it’s Australia’s first and largest comedy show featuring a line up of incredibly talented South Asian women comedians, with over 2900 tickets sold in 2024 across Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Adelaide Fringe and Sydney Comedy Festival.
Our upcoming shows at Edinburgh Fringe in Scotland
15 August
Thursday
Hill Street Theatre
15 August, Thursday
Daizy Maan,
Shyaire,
Zara Janjua,
Shalaka Kurup
16 August
Friday
Hill Street Theatre
15 August, Friday
Daizy Maan,
Shyaire,
Zara Janjua,
Shalaka Kurup
17 August
Saturday
Hill Street Theatre
17 August, Saturday
Daizy Maan,
Shyaire,
Zara Janjua,
Urooj Ashfaq
18 August
Sunday
Hill Street Theatre
18 August, Sunday
Daizy Maan,
Shyaire,
Urooj Ashfaq,
Vidya Divakaran
20 August
Tuesday
Hill Street Theatre
20 August, Tuesday
Daizy Maan,
Shyaire,
Zara Janjua,
Shalaka Kurup,
Vidya Divakaran
21 August
Wednesday
Hill Street Theatre
21 August, Wednesday
Daizy Maan,
Shyaire,
Shalaka Kurup,
Kiran Saggu
22 August
Thursday
Hill Street Theatre
22 August, Thursday
Daizy Maan,
Shyaire,
Shalaka Kurup,
Kiran Saggu,
Vidya Divakaran
23 August
Friday
Hill Street Theatre
23 August, Friday
Daizy Maan,
Shyaire,
Alex Bertulis,
Vidya Divakaran
24 August
Saturday
Hill Street Theatre
24 August, Saturday
Daizy Maan,
Shyaire,
Alex Bertulis,
Kiran Saggu
25 August
Sunday
Hill Street Theatre
25 August, Sunday
Daizy Maan,
Shyaire,
Alex Bertulis,
Kiran Saggu
Our Comedians
Featuring Shyaire Ganglani, Daizy Maan, Alex Bertulis, Kiran Saggu, Shalaka Kurup, Urooj Ashfaq, Vidya Divakaran and Zara Janjua.
Shyaire Ganglani
Shyaire, aptly named for ‘poetry’, is a slam poet and comedian with a knack for spinning her generational trauma into comedy gold. Growing up South Asian in so many countries, she’s got more passport stamps than jokes! With her ‘international’ accent that screams ‘firang’ (foreigner), she’s living proof that laughter needs no translation, serving up her culturally spiced humour with a side of well-travelled giggles. Shyaire is also the founder and host of ‘Funny For Comedy’, a diverse, monthly comedy room in Melbourne.
Daizy Maan
Daizy Maan’s TikTok videos have garnered more than 25 millions views for being hilarious and calling out sexism in Punjabi music and, well… Punjabi men. Outside of her secret Tik Tok channel, Daizy once had a real day job running startup programs aka helping clever kids build startups, get rich and go to the moon.
As the producer of Brown Women Comedy, she’s passionate about amplifying the voices of South Asian women. And now she’s tired of helping white men get richer so she’s encouraging brown women to be poorer by becoming comedians and joining them on that journey to below minimum wage. Clearly hilarious in Punjabi, Daizy’s giving English a crack this year as she optimistically enters her sabbatical that her parents keep calling unemployment.
Alex Bertulis
Alex Bertulis-Fernandes was a Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year Finalist, Channel 4 Sean Lock Comedy Awards Finalist, and Beat The Frog World Series Finalist. Alex was shortlisted for the BBC New Comedy Awards and co-starred in White Chicks 2 at Soho Theatre. Her jokes have featured in The Guardian.
Kiran Saggu
Kiran is an American/British comedian based in London who identifies as a savage in a Megan Thee Stallion way, not in a Winston Thee Churchill way. Kiran is one of the creators and co-hosts of London’s buzzing monthly comedy night Slay24.
Shalaka Kurup
Shalaka Kurup is an award-winning Indian comedian. Her observational humour has been described as being “deadpan joy” (The Morning Star) and acerbic. She recently opened for Eshaan Akbar and Ria Lina, and has been featured on Channel 4 Digital and BBC One.
“An impressive arsenal of cool, sardonic stand-up” – Chortle
“An impressive arsenal of cool, sardonic stand-up” – Chortle
Urooj Ashfaq
Urooj Ashfaq is a Mumbai-based comedian, writer and actor. She won the Best Newcomer award at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards in 2023.
Vidya Divakaran
Vidya Divakaran is a fresh faced stand up/musical comedian/slug-masked-clown, with a
style that’s upbeat, personal and zany. Mainly musing on identity, dating as a brown woman,
and internet culture, she brings the energy of catching up with your bestfriend. Vidya also
cohosts East London alt-night, Soft Play Area.
Zara Janjua
Zara Janjua is a BBC Comedy Writers Room Alumni, Funny Women finalist and David Nobbs finalist. She performed her first ever stand up set on TV and her second was to a room of 1000 – not that she knew that before she agreed. She has hosted the BBC Comedy Underground, and is a BBC Radio presenter and columnist.
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