Lena Waithe

Lena Waithe weɪθ born May 17 1984 is an American actress producer and screenwriter She is the creator of the Showtime drama series The Chi 2018present and the BET comedy series Boomerang 201920 and Twenties 202021 She also wrote and produced the crime film Queen Slim 2019 and is the executive producer of the horror anthology series Them 2021present Waithe gained recognition for her role in the Netflix comedydrama series Master of None 20152021 and became the first AfricanAmerican woman to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series in 2017 for writing the shows Thanksgiving episode which was loosely based on her personal experience of coming out to her mother She has also appeared in Steven Spielbergs 2018 adventure film Ready Player One and the HBO series Westworld In 2023 she was nominated for Best Play at the 76th Tony Awards her production work on the sketchcomedy play Aint No Mo Waithe was named one of Time magazines 100 Most Influential People of 2018 and was included on Fast Companys Queer 50 list in 2021 and 2022 Description above from the Wikipedia article Lena Waithe licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia