Lisa Albert
{{Short description|American television writer and producer}}
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}}Lisa Albert is an American television writer and producer. She was born in New York City, and is currently based out of Los Angeles, California.{{cite web|title=Mad Men Season Four Production Bios|url=http://www.lionsgatepublicity.com/uploads/assets/mad%20men_s04_production%20bios.pdf|publisher=Lionsgate|accessdate=23 April 2015}} Albert originally began working in publishing until she switched to television writing in 1986.{{cite web|title=Lisa Albert|url=http://www.londonscreenwritersfestival.com/speakers/lisa-albert|website=London Screenwriter's Festival 2015|accessdate=1 April 2015}} She worked on the AMC drama series Mad Men as a writer and producer and won a Writers Guild of America Award for her work on the show.{{Cite web|url=http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1516 |title=2010 Writers Guild Awards Television, Radio, News, Promotional Writing, and Graphic Animation Nominees Announced |accessdate=2010-04-30 |publisher=Writers Guild of America |year=2009 |author=Gregg Mitchell & Sherry Goldman |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120525035829/http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1516 |archivedate=2012-05-25 |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1517 |title=Writers Guild Awards - 2010 Awards Winners |accessdate=2010-05-01 |publisher=Writers Guild of America |year=2010 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100703004257/http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1517 |archivedate=2010-07-03 |url-status=dead }}
Early life
Lisa Albert graduated from Swarthmore College in 1981. She was an honors graduate in English Literature.{{cn|date=May 2023}}
Career
Albert served as a producer for the first season of Mad Men and co-wrote two episodes of the season. Alongside her colleagues on the writing staff, she won a Writers Guild of America Award for Best New Series and was nominated for Best Dramatic Series at the February 2008 ceremony for her work on the season.{{Cite web|url=http://wga.org/subpage_newsevents.aspx?id=2653#TheWireHBO |title=2008 Writers Guild Awards Television & Radio Nominees Announced |accessdate=2007-12-13 |publisher=WGA |year=2007 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071219203806/http://www.wga.org/subpage_newsevents.aspx?id=2653 |archivedate=2007-12-19 }}{{cite news|url=https://www.variety.com/awardcentral_article/VR1117977607.html#TheWireHBO|title=WGA announce TV, radio nominees|accessdate=2007-12-13|publisher=Variety| first=Byron | last=Perry | date=2007-12-12}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i51057e90b0ae537411989f7513cd3991#TheWireHBO|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706081613/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i51057e90b0ae537411989f7513cd3991|url-status=dead|archive-date=2008-07-06|title=HBO tops WGA awards list with five noms|accessdate=2007-12-13|publisher=The Hollywood Reporter|year=2007}}
She returned as a supervising producer for the second season and continued to write episodes. She was nominated for the WGA award for Best Dramatic Series a second time at the February 2009 ceremony for her work on the second season.{{Cite web|url=http://wga.org/content/default.aspx?id=3410 |title=2009 Writers Guild Awards Television, Radio, News, Promotional Writing, and Graphic Animation Nominees Announced |accessdate=2008-12-12 |publisher=WGA |year=2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081212052838/http://www.wga.org/content/default.aspx?id=3410 |archivedate=2008-12-12 }}
After being nominated for the third consecutive year, Albert won the WGA Award for Best Drama Series at the February 2010 ceremony for her work on the third season.
Albert's work on Mad Men was recognized through an award from Peabody, three Emmy Awards, and four Writers Guild of America Awards.{{cite web|title=Lisa Albert|url=http://www.londonscreenwritersfestival.com/speakers/lisa-albert|website=London Screenwriters' Festival 2015|accessdate=April 1, 2015}}
In 2007, Albert and her fellow producers, Tom Palmer, Scott Hornbacher, Matthew Weiner, Kater Gordon, Robin Veith, and Maria and Andre Jacquemetton, collectively accepted an Emmy for the show's pilot episode and received a nomination for their episode, "The Wheel".{{cite web|title='Men' fills four slots in race of top shows|url= http://www.lexisnexis.com/lnacui2api/api/version1/getDocCui?lni=7WDR-25N1-2R71-M00R&csi=140595&hl=t&hv=t&hnsd=f&hns=t&hgn=t&oc=00240&perma=true|website=Daily Variety|accessdate=April 1, 2015}}
In an interview at the Screenwriters' Festival, Albert said that despite the sexism of the era in which the show was set, she hoped viewers would see its feminist qualities. Albert credited her and her coworkers' success to the complexity of their script.{{cite web|title=Writing and Producing Mad Men: In Conversation With Lisa Albert|url=http://www.chrisjonesblog.com/2012/10/writing-and-producing-mad-men-in-conversation-with-lisa-albert.html|website='Project: Rocketboy' Official Blog|accessdate=April 1, 2015}} She and her fellow female writers have been known to meet together in Albert's home, spending time drawing from their own experiences as women to enhance the complexity with which they drafted the female characters on the show.{{cite news|title=The Women Behind 'Mad Med'|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204908604574332284143366134|website=The Wall Street Journal|date=August 7, 2009 |accessdate=April 1, 2015}}
Some of her other television writing credits include The Cosby Show, My Sister Sam, Mr. Belvedere, Major Dad, Murphy Brown, Living Single, Suddenly Susan, Hannah Montana, Soul Man, Beautiful People, and Halt and Catch Fire.
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External links
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Category:American women television producers
Category:Primetime Emmy Award winners
Category:American women television writers
Category:American television writers
Category:Writers Guild of America Award winners
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Category:21st-century American women writers
Category:Writers from New York City