Name Azie Dungey | Role Actress | |
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Nominations Writers Guild of America Award for Television: New Series | ||
Azie Mira Dungey is an American actress, comedian and writer. She wrote and played the lead role in the comedic web series "Ask a Slave," and is currently, ". . .writing a book as a follow-up to the series." Dungey is also currently a writer for the Netflix series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, produced by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock.
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Early life and education
Dungey was born in Washington, DC. She spent her early childhood in Philadelphia, PA and later moved to Maryland where she attended middle and high school. She was a drama major at New York University, graduating from the Tisch School of the Arts.
Actress and writer
Dungey took part in a number of theatre productions in Washington, DC, including The Walworth Farce at Studio Theatre.
Dungey performed the role of a slave as part of an ongoing historical reenactment of life at the Mount Vernon plantation in Virginia, USA, once owned by President George Washington. Part of her job was to answer tourists' questions about slavery while staying in character. She worked there part-time for nearly two years from 2010-2012.
In 2013, Dungey moved to Los Angeles. She then wrote the script for a web series called Ask a Slave, and performed the lead role, that of Lizzie Mae, a slave. The series includes actual incidents from her experiences on the plantation. The series has received more than two million views.
As a result, Salon magazine listed her as one of 10 black women SNL could hire.