Amber Ruffin

Amber Ruffin is a writer, executive producer, and host of the Emmy and WGA Award nominated series “The Amber Ruffin Show” on Peacock. She is also an Emmy and WGA Award nominated writer and performer for NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers.” Ruffin was the first African American female to write for a late-night network talk show in the U.S. She has written and performed on shows like “Detroiters,” “A Black Lady Sketch Show” and “Drunk History.” Ruffin has written for the Emmys, Golden Globes and Tonys. She was previously a performer at Boom Chicago in Amsterdam, the iO Theater and the Second City in Chicago. Ruffin is a New York Timesbestselling author, along with her sister Lacey Lamar, of “You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories of Racism.” She co-wrote the most Tony nominated musical of 2022, “Some Like it Hot.” Ruffin is now writing a revival of “The Wiz” which tours America beginning fall of 2023 and lands on Broadway spring of 2024.