Naomi Ekperigin | |
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 Ekperigin in 2022 | |
| Born | |
| Alma mater | Wesleyan University |
| Occupation(s) | Comedian, actress, writer |
| Years active | 2010–present |
| Spouse | Andy Beckerman |
Naomi Ekperigin is an American stand-up comedian, actress, writer, and producer. She has written for the television shows Great News and Broad City . She has acted on the television shows Corporate , Search Party , Central Park , and Mythic Quest . [1]
Ekperigin was born and raised in Harlem, [2] with a father from Nigeria and a mother from Detroit. [3] She attended the Dalton School, where she was one of six black students in a class of 118, [2] and graduated from Wesleyan University in 2005. [4] In college, Ekperigin began performing comedy and doing improv. [5]
After graduating from college, Ekperigin spent a year touring with the National Theatre for the Deaf, [5] and she returned to New York in 2007 where she got a start doing stand-up while working a day job at an art magazine. [2] [6] When that magazine folded in 2013, Ekperigin found a position working as a writer's assistant for Broad City . [2] She was promoted to staff writer in the show's second season and served as a writer on season 3 as well.
In 2015, Ekperigin was a nominee, with the Broad City writing staff, for the Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Comedy Series. [7] Splitsider praised her work as "savvy, smart, funny and politically active" [6] and Essence named her to its list of "8 Black Comediennes Who are 'Ready' for SNL." [8]
In May 2016, Comedy Central announced that Ekperigin would create a half-hour special for the network, [9] taped in New Orleans in June 2016. [10] September 29, 2016, she made her late-night debut on Late Night with Seth Meyers. Her half-hour special premiered on Comedy Central just two weeks later, October 14 at midnight. Ekperigin also co-wrote a television pilot for Comedy Central with former Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams. [11] Ekperigin has also written for Difficult People and written for and appeared on Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell . [12]
She was a regular performer on the WNYC podcast 2 Dope Queens . Other projects include a pilot for TruTV called Inside Caucasia, developed with Ekperigin's partner, comedian Andy Beckerman. [2]
In June 2017, she joined the writing staff of the NBC sitcom Great News , starring Briga Heelan, Andrea Martin, and John Michael Higgins. She then went on to write for season 2 of the CBS All Access show No Activity and the HBO limited series Mrs. Fletcher , starring Kathryn Hahn.
She has a recurring role in the Apple TV+ show Mythic Quest as Carol, the beleaguered HR person at a video game company. She was promoted to main role in season 3.
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