Comedian Amanda Seales is set to make her HBO stand-up debut. The network announced today that Seales will tape an hour-long comedy special at the Edison Ballroom in New York this month, slated to air sometime in 2019. It will be titled I Be Knowin’. Stan Lathan — who directed Dave Chappelle’s 2017 Netflix specials Deep in the Heart of Texas, The Age of Spin, The Bird Revelation, and Equanimity — is attached to direct.
In addition to playing Tiffany on Issa Rae’s HBO comedy Insecure, Seales has also appeared on Get Your Life, Black-ish, and Animals, and her stand-up set on Late Night With Seth Meyers last year earned high praise from Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood Jr., who called her performance “pivotal†and the topics she covered “some of [the] realest I’ve seen from a black comic in a long ass time.†Watch the set for yourself below: