Tami Sagher
{{short description|American actress}}
{{use mdy dates|date=January 2021}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Tami Sagher
| image = Tami Sagher at Don't Think Twice premiere (cropped).jpg
| caption = Sagher at Don't Think Twice premiere in 2016
| yearsactive = 1996–present
| occupation = {{flatlist|
- Writer
- actress
- comedian
}}
| alma_mater = University of Chicago
}}
Tami Sagher is an American comedy writer, producer, and actress.
Biography
A native of Chicago, Sagher studied mathematics at the University of Chicago before joining Boom Chicago and then Second City.{{Cite web|url=http://thecore.uchicago.edu/Summer2010/feature-making-it-up.shtml|title=The Core: College Magazine of the University of Chicago|website=thecore.uchicago.edu|access-date=2017-01-28}}
Career
=TV=
Sagher has written for the TV shows 30 Rock, Psych, MADtv and Inside Amy Schumer. She was a staff writer on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, leaving before the show's final season.
Sagher then spent two seasons as writer-producer on the Netflix series Orange is the New Black. From 2020 to 2021, Sagher was a writer-executive producer on the Hulu series Shrill.
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=Performance=
Her performing includes playing an improv performer in Don't Think Twice,{{Cite web|url=http://dontthinktwicemovie.com/|title=Don't Think Twice - A Film by Mike Birbiglia|website=Don't Think Twice}} starring in the short film The Shabbos Goy,{{Cite news |last=Saveliev|first=Alex |authorlink= |date=2020-11-10 |page= |title=The Shabbos Goy |url=https://filmthreat.com/reviews/the-shabbos-goy/ |work=Film Threat |location= |access-date=2021-07-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111003136/https://filmthreat.com/reviews/the-shabbos-goy/ |archive-date=2020-11-11 |url-status=live }} as well as various appearances on TV sitcoms and sketch shows. In particular, she appeared in Season 5 of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Honors
Sagher has been nominated for 4 Writers Guild of America Awards:
- Three for MADtv;{{Citation needed |date=August 2021}}
- One (2008 in the category of Best Comedy Series) for the third season of 30 Rock.{{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 }}
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|1127337}}
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Category:American film actresses
Category:American television actresses
Category:American television producers
Category:American women television producers
Category:American television writers
Category:American women television writers
Category:Writers Guild of America Award winners
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:Upright Citizens Brigade Theater performers
Category:21st-century American women
Category:American comedy writers
Category:Comedians from Chicago
Category:American women comedians
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