Ekperigin was born and raised in Harlem, the son of a Nigerian father and a Detroit mother. Ekperigin graduated from Wesleyan University in 2005 after attending the Dalton School, where she was one of six black students in a class of 118. Ekperigin began performing comedy and improv in college.
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Ekperigin, who is now based in Los Angeles, hopes that her Netflix special will lead to other opportunities.
Ekperigin spent a year touring with the National Theatre for the Deaf after graduating from college, and Ekperigin returned to New York in 2007 to start doing stand-up while working a day job at an art magazine. When that magazine folded in 2013, Ekperigin landed a job as a writer’s assistant at Broad City.
Ekperigin was promoted to staff writer in the show’s second season and continued to write in season three.
Ekperigin and the Broad City writing staff were nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Comedy Series in 2015. Splitsider called her work “savvy, smart, funny, and politically active,” and Essence named her one of the “8 Black Comediennes Who Are ‘Ready’ for SNL.”
