American comedy writer and director
Lang Fisher (born January 29, 1980) is an American comedy writer and director . She co-created and executive produced the Netflix coming-of-age comedy-drama series, Never Have I Ever .[ 1] [ 2]
Career
Fisher graduated from Fountain Valley School of Colorado in 1998 and Columbia University in 2002.[ 3] [ 4] [ 5] [ 6] At Columbia, she was a member of the annual Varsity Show . Her cast and staff-mates included future actress Jenny Slate , comedian Michelle Collins , Gabe Liedman , who is the show-runner of Netflix animated series Q-Force and Hulu comedy series PEN15 , Emmy Award -nominated stage actor Brandon Victor Dixon , managing editor of The Onion and Upworthy co-founder Peter Koechley , Onion News Network founder and director Will Graham ,[ 7] and Robby Mook , manager of Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign .[ 8] [ 9] Her classmates also included award-winning director and producer Susanna Fogel .[ 10]
She was a staff writer for The Onion as well as its TV spin-off, the Onion News Network , for six years and was a member of its award-winning writing staff before joining 30 Rock as a staff writer in its final season.[ 11] The episode she co-wrote, "A Goon's Deed in a Weary World ", received critical acclaim and was named by Variety magazine as one of the "25 Best TV Episodes of the Decade (2010-2019)" in 2019.[ 12] [ 13] [ 14]
From 2013 to 2017, Fisher wrote, directed and co-executive produced on the romantic comedy series, The Mindy Project .[ 15] She started writing on the series in season 2.[ 16] Fisher wrote the 12th episode of season 5, "Mindy Lahiri is a White Man ."[ 17]
From 2017 to 2019, Fisher was a writer and Co-Executive Producer on the police procedural comedy , Brooklyn Nine-Nine .[ 18] Fisher wrote the 8th episode of the show's 6th season, titled "He Said, She Said ."[ 19] The episode explored sexual assault in the workplace and was Stephanie Beatriz 's directorial debut.[ 20] She also wrote the episodes ''Hitchcock & Scully " and ''The Puzzle Master " for the show.
In 2019, Fisher wrote and co-created Never Have I Ever with Mindy Kaling and serves as the showrunner .[ 15] [ 21]
Filmography
Awards
Fisher was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Comedy Series in 2014 for her work on 30 Rock .[ 22] She was nominated in 2021 for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series .[ 23]
In 2008, she was part of The Onion 's team that won the Peabody Awards .[ 24] [ 25] [ 26]
References
^ Petski, Denise (14 April 2021). "Common Joins Season 2 Of Mindy Kaling's Netflix Series 'Never Have I Ever' As Recurring" . Deadline . Retrieved 29 April 2021 .
^ Gross, Terry (27 April 2020). "Mindy Kaling Brings A New Nerd To TV, And Finds She 'Was Not Alone' As A Teen" . NPR . Retrieved 29 April 2021 .
^ Agresta, Mike (Fall 2011). "Behind the Shell" . Columbia College Today . Retrieved 29 April 2021 .
^ Zurbach, Christin (4 April 2013). "Jenny Slate wins Varsity Show award" . Columbia Spector . Retrieved 29 April 2021 .
^ "Arts Guild" . www.fvs.edu . Retrieved 2021-09-02 .
^ "FVS Bulletin–Summer 2015" . Issuu . 4 March 2020. Retrieved 2021-09-02 .
^ "Varsity Show's 107th Production: A Modern Spectacle That Evokes Rich Tradition" . www.columbia.edu . Retrieved 2022-05-24 .
^ "Columbia Spectator 30 April 2012 — Columbia Spectator" . spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu . Retrieved 2021-09-01 .
^ "Columbia Spectator 25 April 2002 — Columbia Spectator" . spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu . Retrieved 2021-09-01 .
^ "30 Bingeable TV Shows Made by Columbia Graduates" . Columbia Magazine . Retrieved 2021-10-02 .
^ "The US Perspective - 3. From The Onion via 30 Rock to The Mindy Project" . BBC . 2015-03-13. Retrieved 2021-09-01 .
^ "30 Rock: "A Goon's Deed In A Weary World" " . The A.V. Club . 25 January 2013. Retrieved 2021-09-01 .
^ Sepinwall, Alan (2013-01-25). "Review: '30 Rock' – 'A Goon's Deed in a Weary World' " . UPROXX . Retrieved 2021-09-01 .
^ Framke, Caroline; D'Addario, Daniel (2019-12-20). "TV's Top 25 Episodes of the Decade" . Variety . Retrieved 2021-09-01 .
^ a b Otterson, Joe (20 March 2019). "Mindy Kaling, Netflix Team for Comedy Series Based on Her Childhood" . Variety . Retrieved 29 April 2021 .
^ Fisher, Lang (15 March 2017). "The Mindy Project: Writer Lang Fisher on Ryan Hansen playing Mindy Lahiri" . Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved 29 April 2021 .
^ Nguyen, Hanh (14 March 2017). " 'The Mindy Project's' Lang Fisher on Writing Mindy as a White Man in the Age of Trump" . IndieWire . Retrieved 29 April 2021 .
^ Patten, Dominic (16 June 2020). "Never Have I Ever' Creators Mindy Kaling & Lang Fisher On Flipping The Coming Of Age Script – Deadline At Home" . Deadline . Retrieved 29 April 2021 .
^ Ferguson, LaToya (28 February 2019). " "He Said, She Said" is an honest, funny, exemplary episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine" . AV Club . Retrieved 29 April 2021 .
^ Christina, Smith (5 March 2019). "The Amazing Story Behind The Latest Episode of 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' " . Film School Rejects . Retrieved 29 April 2021 .
^ Arora, Priya (27 April 2020). "Mindy Kaling's Netflix Show Tells a New Kind of Story: One Like Hers" . The New York Times .
^ "WGA Awards 2014: Complete list of winners and nominees" . Los Angeles Times . 2014-01-31. Retrieved 2021-09-01 .
^ Bosselman, Haley (2021-03-28). "NAACP Image Awards 2021: The Complete Televised Winners List" . Variety . Retrieved 2021-09-01 .
^ "Onion News Network" . The Peabody Awards . Retrieved 2021-09-01 .
^ Thielman, Sam (2009-05-19). "The Onion wins Peabody Award" . Variety . Retrieved 2021-09-01 .
^ "Explore Gotham WEEK on Filmocracy Virtual Festivals!" . Filmocracy Virtual Festivals . Retrieved 2021-09-01 .
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