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DALIA IS AN EGYPTIAN-AMERICAN STAND-UP COMEDIAN BASED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. SHE PERFORMS INTERNATIONALLY IN FESTIVALS, CLUBS, AND THEATERS ALL OVER THE US, UK, IRELAND, CANADA, AND EGYPT.​


​SHE CREATED AND HOSTED HER STAND-UP SHOW GROUND FLOOR & CO-PRODUCED COMEDY IN ENGLISH IN LOS ANGELES & IS THE CREATOR & HOST OF INTERRUPTION SHOW.


 

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Photo credit: BBC

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FESTIVALS


UK:
Latitude Festival 2012​
Peace in the Park Festival, Sheffield 2014
Brighton Fringe Festival 2014, 2015
Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2012 (4Play Comedy, Free Fringe), 2013 (4Play Comedy, Free Fringe), 2015 (Christian Knowles Productions Presents: The Lunchtime Special), 2018 (Interruption Show, Free Festival), 2022 (solo hour "Another Castle," Just the Tonic)
Machynlleth Comedy Festival 2023 (solo hour "Another Castle", Interruption Show)

Ireland:
Electric Picnic 2018, 2022

Egypt:
​Cairo Comedy Festival 2019

US:
​Desi Comedy Fest 2017
​Second City LA Diversity in Comedy Festival 2017
New Urbanism Film Festival 2017
​QueenFest 2018
​​SF Sketchfest 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023
Sacramento Femme Fest 2019, 2020 (Postponed)
All Jane Comedy Festival 2019
Ha Ha Harvest Comedy Festival 2019​
Big Pine Comedy Festival 2020, 2021

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COMPETITIONS 


UK:​​
Chortle Student Comedy Award 2012 (Finalist)
Beat the Frog 2013, Manchester Frog and Bucket (Winner) 
Harrogate Comedian of the Year 2013 (Finalist)
Reading Comedy Festival New Act of the Year 2013, 2014 (Finalist) 
Beat the Frog World Series 2013 (Finalist)
Comedy Café New Act Competition 2014 (Winner) 
​Screen & Story Film Festival Screenplay Competition 2021 (Semi-Finalist

Dalia Malek

Photo credit: Andrew Max Levy


MEDIA


Featured in: Vulture, New York Magazine, Washington Post, Teen Vogue, The Frisky's Funniest Feminists to Follow on Twitter, USA Today's Young Feminists You Should Be Following on Twitter, Bustle's Feminist Twitter Accounts to Follow, WhoHaha Comedy Call Out's List of Must-Know Comedians.


Tweets featured in: Buzzfeed, Huffington Post, Paste, The Daily Edge, The Week, WhoHaha, Standard Issue, Her, Vox, Daily Dangle, Stylist, Fast Company, eBaum's World, Someecards, and Funny Or Die.


Appeared in the book Joker Face​ (2017), Steve Best's collection of one-liners and fun facts from top comedians.

 

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RADIO/Podcasts


BBC Radio
​Shoreditch Radio
Daily Dangle's Trying Hard Podcast
Headgum's What Did I Miss? Podcast
KGO Radio, The Brian Copeland Show, Headliners on the Headlines
​Ear Gab Podcast
​Facial Recognition Comedy Podcast
Spec Script 
​Women Who Kill Podcast
Please Send Help Podcast
Comedy Time Capsule
Comedy Driven Life - The Isolation Tapes
Hot Goss with TRASH Comedy Podcast
​Things Are Going Great For Me Podcast
Doughty Pod
Read It And Weep Podcast
Which is More? With Pete Musto and Xanthor
Call Me By Your Game Podcast
Coffee Sip Podcast
I Heart Radio's Ethnically Ambiguous
I Heart Radio's The Daily Zeitgeist
Broccoli & Ice Cream with Myq Kaplan​​​

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