Azie Mira Dungey

Azie Mira Dungey is an American actress, producer, and writer, known for the 2013 web series Ask a Slave. She has also written for the TV series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Girls5eva, and Sweetbitter, and Harlem.

Early life and education Azie Mira Dungey She also lived in Maryland in her younger years.

also Mattaponi, and a very active member of the Native community. The tribe's enrollment policies that excluded members who married or had children with African Americans was exposed by the Congressional Black Caucus during their recognition process in 2013. Dungey comes from a family that was victim to Pamunkey anti-Black tribal law and they were seeking enrollment.

She graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. including The Walworth Farce at Studio Theatre.

Dungey performed the role of George Washington's family's enslaved lady's maid, Part of her job was to answer tourists' questions about slavery while staying in character. She worked there part-time for nearly two years from 2010 to 2012.

In 2013, Dungey moved to Los Angeles. She then wrote the script for a comedic web series called Ask a Slave, and performed the lead role, that of Lizzie Mae, a slave. The series, which she also produced, Released on YouTube, the series attracted hundreds of thousands of page views soon after its release.

She was invited by Tina Fey to write for the Netflix series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and later wrote for Girls5eva, both produced by Fey and Robert Carlock. on Starz, based on the bestselling novel of the same title by Stephanie Danler.

From 2019, Dungey wrote and hosted on Season 1 of Say It Loud, an educational series for PBS Digital. Also in 2019, she was executive producer and writer for Lena Waithe's Twenties, a sitcom on BET and Showtime, as well as Tracy Oliver's comedy series Harlem (2021), for which her writing was praised.

Towards the end of the prolonged 2023 writers' strike in the U.S., during which Azie stood on the picket line for nearly four months, she went to Australia. There she connected and worked with some of the Indigenous Australian peoples in the Kimberley region in the north of Western Australia, and did a workshop at Goolarri Media in Broome. She was excited to meet Mark Coles Smith, star of the third series of Mystery Road, and was inspired to tell some of the stories of the Aboriginal peoples of the region, such as the story of Bunuba warrior Jandamarra.

Personal life Dungey has lived on Standing Rock Reservation on Sioux Country, in North and South Dakota.