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 scripts, story-based standup, and poetry explore the peculiar identities, experiences, and places that divide and make us whole. Ama has written two television pilots and one short film about Black women navigating the push-pull of inconvenient love. Her scripts are often inspired by Ama’s experience running classrooms in prisons and public schools; running a community-based nonprofit; and running after her kids. 

Ama is also the founder of Good Influence Consulting, which helps nonprofits and philanthropy better understand and serve communities existing on the margins, including folks who are queer, BIPOC, young, unhoused, experiencing poverty or incarceration. She helped lead Black outreach for the 2020 U.S. Census program in California, facilitated community dialogues for the CA Reparations Taskforce, and worked with Mayor Karen Bass and UCLA to lead community dialogues on policing and public safety. What connects Ama’s creative and community work is her commitment to understanding and authentically sharing human voices and experiences. 

She was a 2024 Moonshot TV Pilot Accelerator Fellow, a 2024 Semifinalist for the Humanitas New Voices Fellowship and a 2024 Script Competition Finalist for the Austin Film Festival. A graduate of Emerson College and Columbia University, Ama serves on the governing board of Communities in Schools Los Angeles. She lives with her wife and daughters in Highland Park, Los Angeles.