Job Title
Cohort Year
2024
Type
Fellow

Biniam Bizuneh

Biniam Bizune is a writer and comedian based in Los Angeles. Biniam has served as a staff writer for JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE and performed stand-up on Comedy Central's STAND UP FEATURING and Viceland’s FLOPHOUSE. He was selected as a fellow of both the 2019 Sundance New Voices Lab and the 2019 Sundance Episodic Lab. He's also written for the A24/Netflix series, THE G WORD, seasons 2 and 3 of DAVE for FX, and the SYFY series, RESIDENT ALIEN. He also created the web series HOW TO BE BROKE for Comedy Central. Most recently Biniam co-created and starred in BAMMAS for Hulu with executive producers Danny Chun and Ramy Youssef. As an actor, Bizuneh starred in the Lee Daniels pilot CULTURE CLASH for Fox in 2019.