Ridley Randolph is a screenwriter and producer from Nashville, Tennessee. After growing up in the South, where she started working full-time at her family’s catfish restaurant at the age of 9, she is now a comedy and romance writer who’s passionate about stories that explore the intersection of romance and identity, often within the context of queerness.

Since graduating from Elon University with a BFA in Cinema & Television Arts, she has escaped the South to pursue an MFA in Screenwriting at Columbia University. Throughout her years of schooling, she has interned at the Cannes Film Festival and various talent management and production companies, including assisting Amy Talkington (“Little Fires Everywhere”).

Currently, Ridley is working as a General Production and Masterbook Script Intern for Season 51 of Saturday Night Live. Her half-hour comedy, ORIENTATION, about a southern woman exploring her queerness for the first time in a bisexual love triangle, recently won Faculty Selects at the Columbia University Film Festival.