At the helm of LOL’s strategy are two leading Black female executives, Thai Randolph and Candice Cherry. For these women in power, diversity is more than just a buzzword but a cornerstone of their leadership at LOL. Recognizing its value has proved to be key to driving culture and comedy forward.
In the past year alone, both women have been paramount to securing lucrative partnerships and launching innovative programming that produce diverse, relevant, and innovative entertainment globally.
Yet with all accomplished, their proudest achievement to date is how they continue to carve out opportunities of mentorship, advocacy, production, and exhibition through its programming. Most notably, the launch of— a first-of-its-kind screenwriting fellowship developed in partnership with the Sundance Institute. “When we first started, we said it can't just be a box that we're checking. We didn't want it to be a vanity program and we've seen so many of these,” states Randolph.
Designed to champion the next generation of Black women in comedy through mentorship, advocacy, production, and exhibition, Women Write Now will offer three talented writers the opportunity to see their original comedic screenplay developed and produced into a featured short by LOL! Studios, directed by a celebrity Black female comedian, and premiered during the 2022 Sundance film festival.
Both Randolph and Cherry’s philosophy of lifting as they climb is inspired by the powerful examples that were demonstrated at home growing up and whose shoulders they stand on today. For Cherry’s, watching her mom navigate entrepreneurship as an immigrant from Jamaica was her earliest lesson on the type of woman in business that Cherry aimed to be.
Beyond mastering a skill set, Randolph and Charles recognize that making it in Hollywood requires much more than talent. Central to their mission is leveraging their positions to hire others, elevate others and bring them along as they enter new spaces. Here they both share some advice for young Black creatives who might want to follow in her footsteps and share why diversity truly matters.
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