The product of Jamaican and Ghanaian parents, Ama Anane (pronounced Ah-nah-nee) grew up in two of the wildest places on Earth: Papua New Guinea and Las Vegas. Her screenwriting, stand-up, and poetry explore the identities and experiences that both divide us and make us whole. Ama is currently part of the NBCUniversal TV Writing Program, was named one of the Austin Film Festival’s 25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2025, and is a 2024 Moonshot TV Pilot Accelerator Fellow. She is currently staffed on a Peacock workplace dramatic comedy and will make her directorial debut in 2026 with a short dark comedy titled Cottonmouth.

A graduate of Emerson College and Columbia University, Ama is also the founder of Good Influence, which works with nonprofits, foundations, and public institutions striving to advance a more just world. She lives in Highland Park, Los Angeles with her wife and daughters.