Alumna Ama Quao ’18 served as a staff writer on the debut seasons of Hulu’s How I Met Your Father and Freeform's Single Drunk Female.
Set in the same universe as its predecessor, How I Met Your Mother, How I Met Your Father follows Sophie (Hilary Duff) and her close-knit group of friends as they figure out who they are, what they want out of life, and how to fall in love in the age of dating apps and limitless options.
In Single Drunk Female, a public breakdown at a New York media company forces 20-something alcoholic Samantha Fink (Sofia Black-D'Elia) to move back home with her overbearing mother. Samantha then sets out on a path to figure out her best self while confronted with remnants of her old life.
Before becoming a staff writer for How I Met Your Father and Single Drunk Female, Quao was selected to participate in Disney's Creative Talent Development & Inclusion Writing Program, which offers advanced professional development with the primary goal of helping to secure participants’ first staffing assignment.
Ama Quao is a first-generation African-American screenwriter based in New York by way of Tennessee. She has interned and worked at A24, Billions on Showtime, and Sweetbitter on Starz. She worked as a Writer’s Assistant on the Apple TV+ show Shining Girls. A 2017 Made in New York Fellowship Semi-Finalist and recipient of the 2017 Jesse Thompkins III Emerging Storyteller Award, her comedic writing seeks to expand the representation of women of color in film and TV.
Stream the pilot of How I Met Your Father now on Hulu and catch new episodes of Single Drunk Female Thursdays at 10:30 PM ET on Freeform.