Actress Writer Filmmaker

Ashlei Shyne, is an LA-based comedy writer, actress, filmmaker and activist hailing from Dayton, Ohio. Go Buckeyes! This actress turned filmmaker is best-known playing Josephine Baker in the Daytime Emmy nominated sketch comedy series “The Book of Queer". As a writer, she is passionate about writing character-driven comedies centered around love, Black women and the LGBTQ+ community.