Waithe scrubs in for the longest-running US medical drama as Dr Evynn Moore, a former student of Dr Catherine Fox, played by Debbie Allen, who heads to Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital with a unique case pertaining to her wife, reported Deadline.
Waithe won an Emmy in 2017 for her writing on Master of None’s season 2 episode Thanksgiving, becoming the first African-American woman to win an Emmy in that category, and has several writing credits including on Queen & Slim, The Chi, Boomerang, and Twenties.
Emmy winner Lena Waithe is joining Grey’s Anatomy in season 21 for a two-episode guest arc storyline.
The episode she will appear in, titled Jump (For My Love), will also see Ellen Pompeo’s Meredith Grey returning, as she works with Scott Speedman’s Nick Marsh to treat a liver transplant patient.
In October last year, Sarah Drew, who played Dr April Kepner on the series, said the way she was dropped from the show was “mean and unjust”.
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