Robin Thede

Robin Thede is the creator, executive producer, showrunner, writer and leading lady in A Black Lady Sketch Show. Previously, she created, executive produced and hosted BET’s critically-acclaimed late-night show, The Rundown with Robin Thede. She was the head writer and a correspondent for Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, and the head writer of the 2016 White House Correspondents Dinner, making her the first African-American woman head writer in late-night and for the WHCD. She has appeared in dozens of TV shows and movies, including Difficult People, Key & Peele, A Haunted House, Goodwin Games and Bad Hair. She signed an exclusive overall deal with Warner Bros. Television in 2020.