

Jen Salke and I have known Amy for many years, and we’re so pleased to have the opportunity to work with her again.” We’re also so excited to be in business with Amy and Paper Kite. “She’s an incredibly talented writer and producer, and we’re thrilled to work with her on a project that reflects the kind of inclusive, joyful creative content we want to be involved with at Amazon Studios, and that our Amazon Prime Video customers want to see. “We are huge fans of Tracy and have long admired her work,” said Vernon Sanders, Co-Head of Television, Amazon Studios. Oliver currently is producing a Clueless remake for Paramount. and Pharrell Williams, and Rapper’s Delight for producer Stephanie Allain and Paula Wagner. feature The Sun Is Also a Star and has numerous feature film projects in various stages of development including writing and directing Survive the Night, a music-themed horror thriller for Warner Bros. A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. Look no further Librarian (and self-described Professor) Lauren O’Connor shares ten new books in our Essential Books for Screenwriters list, including the best aids for writing your television pilot, understanding an actor’s process, and adventuring into the historic pastand the uncertain futureof Hollywood. Oliver co-wrote the screenplay for Girls Trip, which grossed more than $100 million at the global box office. Oliver is the creator, executive producer/showrunner and a director on BET’s upcoming television adaptation of The First Wives Club, starring Michelle Buteau ( Enlisted), Jill Scott ( Why Did I Get Married?) and Ryan Michelle Bathe (This Is Us). I can’t wait to get started and share the story of these four women navigating the complexities of adulthood through their unbreakable friendship.”

“I found the perfect partners in Amy Poehler, Amazon Studios and Universal, who have championed this project from the beginning.
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“This series is a dream project for me,” said Oliver. Amazon Studios and Universal Television produce in association with Paper Kite Productions. Oliver executive produces with Paper Kite’s Poehler and Kim Lessing and 3 Arts’ Dave Becky. Created, written and executive produced by Oliver, the Untitled Tracy Oliver Project (fka Harlem) is a single-camera comedy following the lives of four black women – friends from their college days at NYU – as they navigate sex, relationships and chasing their dreams.
