Nationality American Notable work Broad City Show Broad City | Occupation Comedian, writer Partner(s) Andy Beckerman | |
Nominations Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Comedy Series Similar Aparna Nancherla, Ilana Glazer, Emily Heller, Jen Statsky, Abbi Jacobson | ||
Naomi Ekperigin is a comedian and writer for the television show Broad City.
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Early life
Ekperigin was born and raised in Harlem, with a father from Nigeria and a mother from Detroit. She attended the Dalton School, where she was one of six black students in a class of 118, and graduated from Wesleyan University in 2005. In college, Ekperigin began performing comedy, doing improv.
Career
After graduating from college, Ekperigin spent a year touring with the National Theatre for the Deaf, 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. When that magazine folded in 2013, Ekperigin found a position working as a writer for Broad City.
In 2015, Ekperigin was a nominee, with the Broad City writing staff, for the Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Comedy Series. Splitsider praised her work as "savvy, smart, funny and politically active" and Essence named her to its list of "8 Black Comediennes Who are 'Ready' for SNL."
In May 2016, Comedy Central announced that Ekperigin would create a half-hour special for the network, taped in New Orleans in June 2016. 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 14th at midnight. Ekperigin is also co-writing a television pilot for Comedy Central with former Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams. Ekperigin has also written for Difficult People and written for and appeared on Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. Other projects include a pilot for TruTV called Inside Caucasia, developed with Ekperigin's fiancé, comedian Andy Beckerman.
