--- title: Lena Waithe Wants to Work With Donald Glover on Atlanta description: Actress and writer Lena Waithe attended the TIME 100 Gala in New York on Tuesday night after being named to the 2018 TIME 100 list. canonical: https://time.com/5251485/lena-waithe-on-donald-glover-atlanta/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-04-24T23:41:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:52:24.791Z og:title: Lena Waithe Wants to Work With Donald Glover on Atlanta og:description: The actress and writer is one of the 2018 TIME 100 og:url: https://time.com/5251485/lena-waithe-on-donald-glover-atlanta/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd89de82f07a5eb23/69892e907cdbac8e31d5cae5/time-100-most-influential-gala-2018-red-carpet-011.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2405 og:image:height: 1353 og:image:alt: Time 100 Gala 2018 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Lena Waithe Wants to Work With Donald Glover on Atlanta twitter:description: The actress and writer is one of the 2018 TIME 100 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd89de82f07a5eb23/69892e907cdbac8e31d5cae5/time-100-most-influential-gala-2018-red-carpet-011.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Lena Waithe Really, Really Wants to Work on _Atlanta_: 'Donald Glover Is Setting a New Bar.' > Sponsored content. 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The actor and writer, who has been recognized recently for her Emmy-wining work on [_Master of None_](http://time.com/4945661/lena-waithe-emmys-speech-master-of-none/), had a major supporting role in Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster _Ready Player One_ and was a groundbreaking _Vanity Fair_ cover star, came by the [TIME 100 Gala](http://time.com/5246023/time-100-2018-jennifer-lopez-shawn-mendes/) at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Tuesday night to celebrate her place as one of the [2018 TIME 100](http://time.com/collection/most-influential-people-2018/?). She didn’t skip a beat when TIME asked her what TV show she’d like to work on next. “_Atlanta_, _Atlanta_, _Atlanta_,” she told TIME. “It’s the best show on TV. It doesn’t give a f-ck. It’s black as hell. It’s courageous. Donald is setting a new bar — you have to go to where he is to meet him.” In fact, in California Senator Kamala Harris’s [TIME 100 writeup on Waithe](http://time.com/collection/most-influential-people-2018/5238194/lena-waithe/), she praised her voice as an important part of the movement to expand the types of characters — and role models — we see in pop culture. “Thanks to Waithe, diverse communities can turn on the TV and see vivid, funny, deeply real portrayals of people like themselves,” Sen. 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