Amy Aniobi
Amy Aniobi
Amy Aniobi is a TV writer originally hailing from North Texas. She was born on the 22nd of September 1984. She is a co-executive producer on HBO’s groundbreaking comedy, Insecure starring Issa Rae, and she also served as head writer/EP for the 2 Dope Queens stand-up specials on HBO. In addition, Amy has written for Silicon Valley, The Michael J. Fox Show and Trial and Error. Amy has a number of projects in development, including Homecoming Queen, a pilot at Amazon starring comedian Phoebe Robinson, Brown Girls, a pilot she’s supervising for HBO, and an untitled comedy project produced by Reese Witherspoon. Amy also co-created, co-directed and starred in the web series, Lisa and Amy Are Black, created the web series, The Slutty Years, and wrote for both seasons of Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl.
Personal
[1] Amy is Nigerian, Born to Nigerian parents in the US (New York, the Bay Area), She has lived most of her life in the USA and abroad (France, Morocco). Born on the 22nd of Sepember 1984, Amy is seen to be dark complexioned, average heigh with dark hair and a smiling face. She is very beautiful and fluent in speaking English as well as her native tongue. Her surname ANIOBI suggest that she hails from the Eastern region in Nigeria which is termed as Igbo. She graduated from Stanford University and University of California, Los Angeles
Words from Amy Aniobi.
[2]I’m Nigerian, and in Nigerian culture, we’re storytellers. Those letters where they say, “Send us your credit card information”: Storytellers. We’re really great storytellers. It's in our blood. And it's in our bank accounts. When I was growing up, I remember April Fool’s Day would come around and every year I’d be like, what's the big April Fool’s story that I’m gonna tell my dad to try and get out of school? I’d be like, “I threw up and I wet my pants at the same time, come pick me up.” And he’d be like, “what?” I was six or seven years old and I just had that gene in me, and I do think that latchkey kids make for really great Storyteller s, especially in the TV world, because TV was my babysitter. I had two brothers. They were both knuckleheads, and I sometimes would escape from their antics by watching the block of television shows that would do re-runs in the evenings every night, and those Friday night shows on ABC. [2] I remember I so didn’t understand how Television worked and came from so far outside the world; I thought that Boy Meets World was like a documentary. I was like, “They're just following this kid around school? Why can't they follow me?” I didn’t get it, and I had friends who were like, “No it's written. People write what he says.” And I was like, “what?” I didn’t really get it. But as I got older and went to college, I took a screenwriting class spring quarter of my senior year just as something fun to do. I had come from four years of college waiting until the last minute to write every essay, and still getting good grades, and teachers being like, “You're really good at this.” I’m like cool yeah, but what am I gonna do for money though? And then in the Screenwriting class, our teacher said same thing; if you're actually really good at this you can make a living off of it. I had never considered it, 'cause in Nigerian culture, you're a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer, or a disappointment.
Career
[1] Amy Aniobi is a producer and writer, known for Insecure (TV series) (2016), Silicon Valley (2014) and Lisa and Amy Are Black (2014).Amy recently signed a heavy deal with cable heavyweight cable HBO while continuing in her co-executive Film producer role as well as writing, co-creating and developing on several projects. The two-year pact will have Aniobi continue as a co-executive producer of Insecure, which is going into its fourth season and writing limited series The Dolls with her Insecure colleagues Issa Rae (who will also star) and Laura Kittrell. HBO has also put into development Attachment, a comedy series Aniobi co-created and will executive produce; she'll also develop new projects for the network.
[1] The overall deal for Aniobi comes at the beginning of a new era for HBO as it comes under the umbrella of WarnerMedia, the company formed after AT&T's merger with Time Warner.
HBO Chairman and CEO Richard Plepler departed at the end of February, and former NBC head Bob Greenblatt will oversee HBO in the newly created post of chairman of WarnerMedia Entertainment, with a mandate to increase volume across the company's entertainment brands. The series Attachment will seek to join an HBO comedy lineup that, along with Insecure, includes Ballers, Barry, Crashing, Divorce, High Maintenance, Silicon Valley (TV series) and Veep, plus the forthcoming Los Espookys and Run.
Aniobi is repped by UTA and Ziffren Brittenham; Chandra by Abrams Artists Agency, McKeon/Myones Entertainment and Peikoff Mahan; Weng by CAA; and Hello Sunshine by CAA and Hansen Jacobson.