Miriam Elia
- Writer
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Miriam Elia: How art helped heal my broken heart
An empty room with the lights going on and off, athletes running through a hallway or a piece of blu-tack stuck to a wall: as Martin Creed knows, anything can become art, given a little conceptual tweaking. What about a relationship, though? Or the end of one? Three years ago, Creed met a young artist/comedian called Miriam Elia. Now Elia, 29, has taken the lead from her ex-boyfriend and has fashioned their brief encounter into an artwork, entitled I Fell In Love With a Conceptual Artist, and It Was Totally Meaningless!!!
Alice Jones, The Independent, 12th November 2011Interview with Miriam Elia
Miriam Elia's so dreamy... ahem, that is to say that she's a well-respected comedian and visual artist who has appeared in film, TV, radio, and probably some format not yet available to the general populace.
The Humourdor, 15th May 2011Comedy preview: A Series Of Psychotic Episodes, radio
Radio comedy is largely populated by plummy World Service voices doing skits that sound like unironic Mr Cholmondley-Warner sketches from Harry Enfield's TV series, so the different tone and voice of Miriam Elia's A Series Of Psychotic Episodes really stands out.
Harry Deansway, The Guardian, 1st November 2008Rising stars 2008: Meet the bright young things
The winner of this year's BBC Witty & Twisted award, Miriam Elia has pretentious liberals in her sights.
The Independent, 7th September 2008The head of the heard: Radio comedies vie for Sony Award
An unknown comedian has been shortlisted for the biggest prize in radio comedy - alongside the likes of Paul Whitehouse, Mark Thomas and Mitchell and Webb - with her first ever show. Miriam Elia landed a six-part series on digital channel BBC 7 after winning the corporation's Witty And Twisted competition last year, which sought new writers for radio. Now her show A Series of Psychotic Episodes has been nominated for the prestigious Sony Award for radio comedy.
Chortle, 10th April 2008