Ama Quao is a first-generation African American writer and comedian based between LA and Accra. Raised in Tennessee, her passion for writing stems from the day her English teacher said her writing was so bad she was “unfit to be a member of the sophomore class.” Since then she’s studied playwriting at Brown, interned at A24, and instructed creative writing at Rikers while she received her MFA in Film from Columbia.  

 

Ama won the 2020 Urbanworld Film Festival Screenplay competition, was a 2021 Disney General Entertainment writing fellow, and participated in New York Stage and Film’s 2022 Filmmakers’ workshop.  She has worked as a writer on Freeform’s Single Drunk Female and Hulu’s How I Met Your Father. As a performer, she has opened for Mo Welch, Jackie Kashian, and Skyler Higley. Her comedic writing seeks to expand the representation of women of color in media and explores the fantastic and ordinary relationships we form with each other and within ourselves.