Lang Fisher
{{Short description|American comedy writer and director}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Lang Fisher
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1980|01|29|mf=y}}
| education = Columbia University (BA)
| alma_mater =
| occupation = Television writer
| years_active = 2007 – present
| known_for = co-creating Never Have I Ever with Mindy Kaling
| awards = The Peabody Awards (2008)
}}
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.{{Cite news|last=Petski|first=Denise|date=14 April 2021|title=Common Joins Season 2 Of Mindy Kaling's Netflix Series 'Never Have I Ever' As Recurring|work=Deadline|url=https://deadline.com/2021/04/common-season-2-mindy-kaling-never-have-i-ever-netflix-series-recurring-role-1234733809/|access-date=29 April 2021}}{{Cite news|last=Gross|first=Terry|date=27 April 2020|title=Mindy Kaling Brings A New Nerd To TV, And Finds She 'Was Not Alone' As A Teen|work=NPR|url=https://www.npr.org/2020/04/27/845440741/mindy-kaling-brings-a-new-nerd-to-tv-and-finds-she-was-not-alone-as-a-teen|access-date=29 April 2021}}
Career
Fisher graduated from Fountain Valley School of Colorado in 1998 and Columbia University in 2002.{{Cite news|last=Agresta|first=Mike|date=Fall 2011|title=Behind the Shell|work=Columbia College Today|url=https://www.college.columbia.edu/cct/archive/fall11/features6|access-date=29 April 2021}}{{Cite news|last=Zurbach|first=Christin|date=4 April 2013|title=Jenny Slate wins Varsity Show award|work=Columbia Spector|url=https://www.columbiaspectator.com/2012/04/30/jenny-slate-wins-varsity-show-award/|access-date=29 April 2021}}{{Cite web|title=Arts Guild|url=https://www.fvs.edu/alumni/arts-guild|access-date=2021-09-02|website=www.fvs.edu}}{{Cite web|title=FVS Bulletin–Summer 2015|url=https://issuu.com/fountainvalleyschoolofcolorado/docs/summer2015_web|access-date=2021-09-02|website=Issuu|date=4 March 2020 |language=en}} 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,{{Cite web |title=Varsity Show's 107th Production: A Modern Spectacle That Evokes Rich Tradition |url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol26/vol26_iss22/2622_Varsity_Show.html |access-date=2022-05-24 |website=www.columbia.edu}} and Robby Mook, manager of Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.{{Cite web|title=Columbia Spectator 30 April 2012 — Columbia Spectator|url=https://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs20120430-01.2.41&srpos=2&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-%22Lang+Fisher%22------|access-date=2021-09-01|website=spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu}}{{Cite web|title=Columbia Spectator 25 April 2002 — Columbia Spectator|url=https://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/?a=d&d=cs20020425-01.2.25&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-%22Lang+Fisher%22------|access-date=2021-09-01|website=spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu}} Her classmates also included award-winning director and producer Susanna Fogel.{{Cite web|title=30 Bingeable TV Shows Made by Columbia Graduates|url=https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/11-bingeable-tv-shows-made-columbia-graduates|access-date=2021-10-02|website=Columbia Magazine|language=en}}
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.{{Cite web|date=2015-03-13|title=The US Perspective - 3. From The Onion via 30 Rock to The Mindy Project|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/writersroom/entries/cfb69124-6d2e-497b-8f12-708cbcdcdd06|access-date=2021-09-01|website=BBC|language=en}} 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.{{Cite web|title=30 Rock: "A Goon's Deed In A Weary World"|url=https://www.avclub.com/30-rock-a-goons-deed-in-a-weary-world-1798175601|access-date=2021-09-01|website=The A.V. Club|date=25 January 2013 |language=en-us}}{{Cite web|last=Sepinwall|first=Alan|date=2013-01-25|title=Review: '30 Rock' – 'A Goon's Deed in a Weary World'|url=https://uproxx.com/sepinwall/review-30-rock-a-goons-deed-in-a-weary-world-pure-imagination/|access-date=2021-09-01|website=UPROXX|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|last1=Framke|first1=Caroline|last2=D'Addario|first2=Daniel|date=2019-12-20|title=TV's Top 25 Episodes of the Decade|url=https://variety.com/feature/best-tv-episode-decade-2010-2019-shows-1203440369/|access-date=2021-09-01|website=Variety|language=en-US}}
From 2013 to 2017, Fisher wrote, directed and co-executive produced on the romantic comedy series, The Mindy Project.{{Cite news|last=Otterson|first=Joe|date=20 March 2019|title=Mindy Kaling, Netflix Team for Comedy Series Based on Her Childhood|work=Variety|url=https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/mindy-kaling-netflix-comedy-lang-fisher-1203168231/|access-date=29 April 2021}} She started writing on the series in season 2.{{Cite magazine|last=Fisher|first=Lang|date=15 March 2017|title=The Mindy Project: Writer Lang Fisher on Ryan Hansen playing Mindy Lahiri|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|url=https://ew.com/tv/2017/03/15/mindy-project-lang-fisher-recap-season-5-episode-12/|access-date=29 April 2021}} Fisher wrote the 12th episode of season 5, "Mindy Lahiri is a White Man."{{Cite news|last=Nguyen|first=Hanh|date=14 March 2017|title='The Mindy Project's' Lang Fisher on Writing Mindy as a White Man in the Age of Trump|work=IndieWire|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2017/03/the-mindy-project-lang-fisher-white-man-ryan-hansen-1201793611/|access-date=29 April 2021}}
From 2017 to 2019, Fisher was a writer and Co-Executive Producer on the police procedural comedy, Brooklyn Nine-Nine.{{Cite news|last=Patten|first=Dominic|date=16 June 2020|title=Never Have I Ever' Creators Mindy Kaling & Lang Fisher On Flipping The Coming Of Age Script – Deadline At Home|work=Deadline|url=https://deadline.com/video/mindy-kaling-never-have-i-ever-interview-lang-fisher-netflix-maitreyi-ramakrishbnan/|access-date=29 April 2021}} Fisher wrote the 8th episode of the show's 6th season, titled "He Said, She Said."{{Cite news|last=Ferguson|first=LaToya|date=28 February 2019|title="He Said, She Said" is an honest, funny, exemplary episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine|work=AV Club|url=https://www.avclub.com/he-said-she-said-is-an-honest-funny-exemplary-epis-1832976993|access-date=29 April 2021}} The episode explored sexual assault in the workplace and was Stephanie Beatriz's directorial debut.{{Cite news|last=Christina|first=Smith|date=5 March 2019|title=The Amazing Story Behind The Latest Episode of 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine'|work=Film School Rejects|url=https://filmschoolrejects.com/brooklyn-nine-nine-stephanie-beatriz-director/|access-date=29 April 2021}} She also wrote the episodes
In 2019, Fisher wrote and co-created Never Have I Ever with Mindy Kaling and serves as the showrunner.{{Cite news|last=Arora|first=Priya|date=27 April 2020|title=Mindy Kaling's Netflix Show Tells a New Kind of Story: One Like Hers|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/arts/television/mindy-kaling-never-have-I-ever-netflix.html}}
Filmography
| class="wikitable sortable"
!Year !Title !Notes |
| 2007–2010
|Director, writer |
| 2011
|Writer |
| 2013
|Writer |
| 2013–2017
|Co-executive producer, writer, executive story editor, director (1 episode) |
| 2017–2019
|Co-executive producer, writer |
| 2020–2021
|Co-creator, executive producer, writer, director (1 episode) |
| 2025
|Co-creator, executive producer, showrunner, writer, director (2 episodes) |
Awards
Fisher was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Comedy Series in 2014 for her work on 30 Rock.{{Cite web|date=2014-01-31|title=WGA Awards 2014: Complete list of winners and nominees|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-wga-awards-2014-complete-list-nominees-story.html|access-date=2021-09-01|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}} She was nominated in 2021 for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series.{{Cite web|last=Bosselman|first=Haley|date=2021-03-28|title=NAACP Image Awards 2021: The Complete Televised Winners List|url=https://variety.com/2021/awards/news/2021-naacp-image-awards-winners-list-1234939378/|access-date=2021-09-01|website=Variety|language=en-US}}
In 2008, she was part of The Onion
References
External links
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Category:Columbia College (New York) alumni
Category:Peabody Award winners
Category:American women television writers
Category:American television writers
Category:American women television producers
Category:21st-century American women