Leila Navabi

Review: Stand Up 4 Women

Hosted by Sikisa live from a podium at the Phoenix Arts Club, the six performers appear via Zoom from their own homes enhanced by an invisible 'front row' with an invited Zoom audience of comedians (visible only to each other) providing a focus for the performer and adding a real-time laughter track that creates a bit of extra atmosphere.

Bameshow, the chaotic panel-show parody

Comics of colour are hitting back at tokenism, stereotyping and people mispronouncing their names, with a mould-breaking new show. We meet the team behind it.

BBC in race row over Rishi Sunak description

The BBC has been plunged into a racism row after Rishi Sunak was described as "what Prince Charles would look like in brownface".

The jibe was made on comedy radio show The Leak in which comedian Leila Navabi also accused Mr Sunak of "not representing most brown people".

How BBC Writersroom kickstarted my comedy writing

Leila Navabi is part of our Welsh Voices writer development group. She explains how the Find Me Funny sitcom writing opportunity opened the door to the possibility that a career in writing and performing could become a reality.