Queen & Slim’s writer and producer Lena Waithe discusses the creative process she went through to put the film together. Report by William Njobvu.
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In This Story: Lena Waithe
Lena Waithe is a screenwriter, producer and actress who is behind the big Netflix comedy-drama series, Master of None which ran from 2015 to 2017.
Waith became the first black woman to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series in 2017, for the Thanksgiving episode of Master of None.
Waithe wrote the drama series The Chi and appeared in the 2018 film Ready Player One which was directed by Steven Spielberg.
She wrote and produced the 2019 movie, Queen & Slim.
Originally from Chicago, Illinois, Waithe has worked her entire career trying and then succeeding to break into writing for television and film.