Draft:Straight to Cards

Straight to Cards is an American media production company founded in 2021 by comedy writers Amber Ruffin and Jenny Hagel under their overall deal with Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group. Straight to Cards is looking to "make cool sh*t, with nice people".

History
In January of 2021, writing and producing partners Amber Ruffin and Jenny Hagel launched Straight to Cards. Ruffin and Hagel met while developing an improv show in Denver for The Second City Chicago.

Ruffin was credited as the first African American woman to write for a network late-night television show, when she joined the staff of Late Night with Seth Meyers at the shows launch in 2014. When the show was searching for a new writer, she called upon her friend Jenny Hagel to submit for the open position. Once Hagel joined the staff in 2016, they launched the hit segment Jokes Seth Can't Tell where they perform written jokes centered around both the Black and Lesbian experience that Seth Meyers couldn't tell himself.

In 2019, the writing/producing partners joined with the producing duo Seth Meyers and Michael Shoemaker of Sethmaker Shoemeyer Productions to launch Ruffin's self titled Emmy-nominated variety sketch/talk show, The Amber Ruffin Show. During the run of The Amber Ruffin Show, Ruffin and Hagel received an overall deal with Universal Television (a division of Universal Studio Group), and launched Straight to Cards.

The company's first pilot was Non-Evil Twin, which taped on the Universal Studio lot in April of 2023 and was originally set up at NBC.

In January 2024, Ruffin and Hagel promoted Justin McGriff, who produced The Amber Ruffin Show and worked with them on Late Night with Seth Meyers, to Vice President to run development and production from their Los Angeles office.