Ali LeRoi

Ali LeRoi is an American television producer, director, writer and actor. He is best known as the co-creator of the Chris Rock semi-autobiographical sitcom Everybody Hates Chris, for which he won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series in 2008.
LeRoi met Rock during the set on The [Chris Rock Show|his eponymous HBO late-night talk show] in 1997. LeRoi wrote and directed several episodes of the series, on a team that earned four consecutive Emmy Award nominations for "Outstanding Writing For A Variety, Music Or Comedy Program," winning that Emmy in 1999. In 2001, the talk show was also nominated for "Outstanding Variety, Music Or Comedy Series," citing LeRoi as a Supervising Producer.
A native of Chicago, LeRoi attended Robert Lindblom Math & Science Academy. He then studied film at Columbia College Chicago.
LeRoi also co-hosted the podcast called "Alias Smith and LeRoi" with comedian Owen H.M. Smith.
His debut feature film, The Obituary of Tunde Johnson, premiered at the 2019 [Toronto International Film Festival].
LeRoi serves on the Board of Directors of Humanitas, a program of awards for film and television writers.