Overview
- In a Nov. 5 appearance on Sherri, Nwodim said she left after seven seasons to explore other opportunities, joking about a “seven-year itch.”
- She will make her Off-Broadway debut at New York’s Lincoln Center Nov. 19–23 in a comedy show directed by Zhailon Levingston.
- Nwodim said she felt honored to be the seventh Black woman in SNL’s cast and voiced hope that more Black women will be hired.
- Her departure means the current SNL lineup has no Black women, a gap Sherri Shepherd highlighted while urging the show to add one.
- Nwodim joined SNL in 2018 and was promoted in 2020, as critics note that only eight of 172 cast members across 51 seasons have been Black women.