who is she?

April Korto Quioh is a screenwriter, producer, comedian, and podcaster. Recently, she was a writer on the final season of the NBC comedy, Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Currently, she is a Co-Executive Producer on Survival of the Thickest on Netflix, a supervising producer on Loot on Apple TV+, and a writer and producer on The Other Black Girl on Hulu. She is also in the process of adapting a memoir into a feature film for Disney+.

She grew up in a matriarchal household in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, where she was inundated with her Liberian immigrant mother's constant morsels of wisdom. Her favorite? "If you don't learn, you will feel." 

She went on to study Television/Film and Sociological Studies at Northwestern University, where she suffered through Proust, wrote terribly pretentious screenplays, drank cheap champagne through a straw, and was still selected as a Class of 2015 Senior to Watch by Northwestern Magazine. (Though she thoroughly enjoyed her college experience, this photograph haunts her to this day.)

After graduation, she relocated to the nut-milk-obsessed city of Los Angeles, where she continues to live and write about popular culture, love, her Liberian-American identity and blackness. She has worked on television shows for NBC, Hulu, Netflix, TBS, TNT, YouTubeRed and Apple TV+.

She is pictured here, as an infant, beating a white doll with a Bible. This is her truest self.

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