Amber Ruffin
Emmy Nominated Host, Peacock’s Amber Ruffin Show
SPEAKER FEE RANGE: $37,000–$50,000 [FEE NOTE]
TRAVELS FROM: New York
• Amber Ruffin stars in and executive produces The Amber Ruffin Show on Peacock, while continuing to hold her positions as writer and performer on Late Night With Seth Meyers.
• In 2021, The Amber Ruffin Show was nominated for the Emmy for Outstanding Writing For A Variety Series.
• She has been a part of LNSM since its inception in 2014, and is the first African American woman ever to write for a network late-night talk show.
• Amber has also performed and written for such shows as Drunk History, Stevie TV, and Key And Peele.
• Her play, King Kong: A Musical Parody, won Best Overall Musical at the NY Fringe Festival in 2015.
• She has been a performer and writer for Second City Chicago Mainstage, Second City Denver, and Boom Chicago in Amsterdam, where she did two tours.
• In 2021, The Amber Ruffin Show was nominated for the Emmy for Outstanding Writing For A Variety Series.
• She has been a part of LNSM since its inception in 2014, and is the first African American woman ever to write for a network late-night talk show.
• Amber has also performed and written for such shows as Drunk History, Stevie TV, and Key And Peele.
• Her play, King Kong: A Musical Parody, won Best Overall Musical at the NY Fringe Festival in 2015.
• She has been a performer and writer for Second City Chicago Mainstage, Second City Denver, and Boom Chicago in Amsterdam, where she did two tours.
Amber Ruffin is a writer, executive producer, and host of the 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 wrote and performed on Comedy Central’s “Detroiters” and was a regular narrator on the cabler’s “Drunk History.” Ruffin was previously a performer at Boom Chicago in Amsterdam, the iO Theater and the Second City in Chicago. In addition, she was a writer/performer for the 2018 and 2019 Golden Globe Awards and has written for the series “A Black Lady Sketch Show.” Ruffin is a New York Times bestselling author, along with her sister Lacey Lamar, of “You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories of Racism,” published by Grand Central Publishing. Recently, Ruffin was named to the 2021 TIME100 Next List, TIME’s list of the next 100 most influential people in the world.
- A Conversation with Amber Ruffin
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