Quinta Brunson is an American writer, producer, comedian, and actress. She is best known for producing and acting inBuzzFeed Video content and the self-produced series Girl Who Has Never Been on a Nice Date. Brunson has starred in the HBO sketch comedy seriesA Black Lady Sketch Show since 2019.
Brunson garnered fans online by posting comedic videos to her Instagram in 2014. In particular, her Girl Who Has Never Been on a Nice Date series went viral and grew her digital fan base. She then worked as a video producer for BuzzFeedVideo after first freelancing for the company. Her videos primarily focused on problems experienced by twenty-somethings. In 2016, Brunson sold two web series as a development partner with BuzzFeed Motion Pictures: one scripted comedy called Broke for Youtube Red, which she wrote, produced, and starred in; the second was called Up for Adoption, and was produced by Verizon's go90 video platform, which she also starred in. Brunson's performance in Broke was nominated for Best Acting in a Comedy at the Streamy Awards in 2017. Brunson left BuzzFeed in 2018. Shortly after, she co-starred in a CW pilot called The End of the World as We Know It, her first network pilot. The show was not picked up by the network. She also wrote and produced a series called Quinta vs. Everything that streams on Facebook Watch. On October 4, 2018, it was announced that a pilot co-produced by Brunson, Larry Wilmore, and Jermaine Fowler will be developed by CBS into a multi-cam comedy. The pilot is called Quinta & Jermaine, and Fowler and Brunson will also star as longtime friends who must deal with an unplanned pregnancy. In 2019, she appeared as Dr. Charli Collier on the supernatural comedy-drama series iZombie, and also voiced multiple characters in the animated seriesLazor Wulf. That fall, Brunson began to co-star and write in the HBO sketch comedy series A Black Lady Sketch Show, alongside Robin Thede, Gabrielle Dennis, and Ashley Nicole Black. Brunson co-stars in the Syfy animated series Magical Girl Friendship Squad opposite Anna Akana, to be released in 2020.
