mamoudou n'diaye
comedian. tv/film writer. filmmaker. educator. dj.
baby abolitionist. full-grown mental health advocate.
Mamoudou N'Diaye is a Mauritanian/Malian-American comedian, tv/film writer, filmmaker, creative consultant, DJ, and former 7th-grade teacher.
N'Diaye has been a correspondent for digital media companies, a creative comedy consultant for social justice nonprofits.
He has written and appeared in the Comedy Central Original ‘THEY FOLLOW,’ written for Refinery29's After After Party, Bandera’s Exploding Kittens, the second season of Netflix's Space Force, the ABC drama, Queens, Apple TV+’s Shape Island, and the upcoming Hulu comedy How To Die Alone.
N'Diaye is currently developing MAIN CHARACTER SYNDROME, a half-hour comedy that can only be described as four Fleabags at once; P.S. 665, a half-hour comedy about teaching in NYC public schools; and KILLJOYS, neon-soaked apocalyptic anime romantic thriller based on the My Chemical Romance discography.
In the feature space, he’s developing the heist comedy FREELANCERS, the psychological thrillers INDUSTRY BABY (about A.I. and it’s abuses), FREEMAN (a look at a world where reparations exist at the cost of history), and MISERY BUSINESS (a dark satire and spiritual sequel to Sunset Boulevard), the romantic traumedy I CAN FIX HIM, and the kung-fu DJ hybrid comedy BEATMATCH!
N’Diaye holds a degree in cognitive behavioral neuroscience from the College of Wooster. He was a winner of 2019's Inaugural Yes And Laughter Lab for his pilot, FRANKLIN, about the black kid from the Peanuts comic strip and a 2020 Sundance Fellow for his pilot GRIOT, an animated anthology centering stories in the African diaspora.
In 2021, he was the recipient of the Film Independent Amplifier Fellowship (in partnership with Netflix) for his feature project FREELANCERS. In 2022, N’Diaye was a Sundance Screenwriters Intensive Fellow, also with FREELANCERS.
N'Diaye can be found in NYC serving as an adjunct professor at NYU in the dramatic writing department, keeping it lowkey, milly rockin to My Chemical Romance, writing his newsletter LOOSIES, and generally living màs.
