Asha Ward

Asha Ward is a Trinidadian American comedian and writer. In 2022, she became the youngest-ever writer on the staff of Saturday Night Live.

Ward, whose family is from Trinidad, was raised in Maryland. Her parents divorced when she was young. 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.

In 2023, Ward was featured by the Just For Laughs comedy festival as one of their "New Faces of Comedy".

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 James Tom, Alok, Chloe Petts, DeAnne Smith, Krishna Istha, and Mx. Dahlia Belle.