Nataly Aukar

Nataly Aukar is a Lebanese stand-up comedian based in New York City. She was born and raised in Laylaki, a neighborhood in Beirut's southern suburbs, and studied at the American University of Beirut, where she also worked as a writer for a Lebanese production house. After graduating, she moved to New York to pursue stand-up comedy, initially balancing it with a separate career before leaving her job in tech in 2022 to perform full time. Aukar is a regular performer at New York Comedy Club and the Improv, and has been featured by Time Out New York. She has opened for internationally known comedians including Hasan Minhaj, Mo Amer, Ramy Youssef, Gad Elmaleh and Laurie Kilmartin. Her comedy draws on the experience of straddling Lebanese and American identities, along with culture shock, family and dating. She has also appeared on screen, starring in the short film "Sofa So Good" by Noa Osheroff, which was featured by The New Yorker and screened at the Lower East Side Film Festival, Aspen Shorts Fest and the Woodstock Film Festival in 2020. She runs an official YouTube channel with stand-up clips.