Lena Waithe continues to amplify her ingenious media territory. The 37-twelve months-feeble screenwriter and producer has signed a multi-project podcast sort out Audible, studies by Variety. The partnership is sealed between the audio provider and Waithe’s Hillman Grad Productions, co-founded with Rishi Rajani.
Hillman Grad Productions’ contemporary projects encompass Showtime’s The Chi, BET’s Twenties, and awe series, Them, on Amazon Studios.
“Lena is a supremely talented storyteller with a proven means to grab the human skills in all its complexity through her work,” said Zola Mashariki, head of Audible Studios. “Along with her company, Hillman Grad Productions, she elevates diverse voices and creates art that challenges convention. I’ve had the privilege of working with Lena in each TV and film and am absolutely pleased to collaborate with her again as she makes her designate on the audio exchange.”
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The first project to come from the collaboration is slated to be an fashioned scripted comedy series inspired by the lifestyles of Kym Whitley. The podcast will scream the myth of the comedienne as she navigates lifestyles as a single mother in Hollywood. Whitley is able to superstar in and executive manufacture the program below her salvage Kwick Whit Productions and director Designate Brown.
Titled Kym, the series will almost definitely be produced by Andrew Coles of The Mission, Debra Martin Tear of Martin Tear, and Skydance Media with Hillman Grad ingenious executive Sylvia Carrasco overseeing.
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“We’re so wrathful to be expanding into the podcast house in collaboration with Audible and continuing our mission to shriek human tales,” Waithe and Rajani said in a joint commentary. “We are indisputably grateful to Kym, for sharing now not most attention-grabbing her myth however her signature instruct with us. Kym Whitley has frequently been one amongst the funniest girls folk within the exchange, and we’re so elated she’s in the end going to rob middle stage!”
