Amber Ruffin Coming To Campus
Free and open to the public.
- published: 2025/09/29
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Amber Ruffin is a writer, executive producer, and host of the WGA Award nominated series The Amber Ruffin Show on Peacock. She has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Host in a Reality/Reality Competition, Game Show or Variety (Series or Special). She is an Emmy and WGA Award nominee writer and performer for NBC’s “Late Night with Seth Meyers” and was the first African American female to write for a late-night network talk show in the U.S. She wrote and performed on Comedy Central’s “Detroiters” and was a regular narrator on the cabler’s “Drunk History.”
Ruffin was previously a performer at Boom Chicago in Amsterdam, the iO Theater and the Second City in Chicago. In addition, she was a writer/performer for the 2018 and 2019 Golden Globe Awards and has written for the series “A Black Lady Sketch Show.” Ruffin is a New York Times bestselling author, along with her sister Lacey Lamar, of “You’ll Never Believe What Happened to Lacey: Crazy Stories of Racism,” published by Grand Central Publishing. Ruffin was named to the 2021 TIME100 Next List, TIME’s list of the next 100 most influential people in the world.
Tuesday, September 22, 2026
1:00-2:30 PM
Strauss Performance Arts
Sponsored by the UNO School of Communication and the CFAM Cultural Enrichment Fee
About the UNO School of Communication
The University of Nebraska at Omaha School of Communication is in the College of Communication, Fine Arts and Media (CFAM) and offers a dynamic curriculum with opportunities for research, creative activity, community service experiences in mass media outlets. Our mission is to provide a student-centered, dynamic environment designed to elevate, empower and engage students to become skilled, ethical citizens and professionals who can excel in diverse local and global communities.For more information, visit School of Communication