Tina Fey is an award-winning, prolific writer, producer, actress and author.
Fey made her Broadway debut in April 2018 with the massive hit Mean Girls: The Musical currently running at the August Wilson Theater. Based on the cult classic 2004 film that Fey wrote for Paramount, the musical showcases music by Tony-nominated Jeff Richmond, lyrics by Nell Benjamin and direction by Casey Nicholaw, both Tony nominees as well. The show opened to critical acclaim and received 12 Tony nominations, the most of any musical this season, including Best Musical and a nod to Fey for Best Book of a Musical. Fey also won both the Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Book of a Musical. The musical was also nominated for 8 Outer Critic Circle Awards and 10 Drama Desk Awards. The show will begin touring the country in late Fall 2019.
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Tina Fey is an award-winning, prolific writer, producer, actress and author.
Fey made her Broadway debut in April 2018 with the massive hit Mean Girls: The Musical currently running at the August Wilson Theater. Based on the cult classic 2004 film that Fey wrote for Paramount, the musical showcases music by Tony-nominated Jeff Richmond, lyrics by Nell Benjamin and direction by Casey Nicholaw, both Tony nominees as well. The show opened to critical acclaim and received 12 Tony nominations, the most of any musical this season, including Best Musical and a nod to Fey for Best Book of a Musical. Fey also won both the Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Book of a Musical. The musical was also nominated for 8 Outer Critic Circle Awards and 10 Drama Desk Awards. The show will begin touring the country in late Fall 2019.
Fey was last seen in a cameo role in Netflix’s feature film Wine Country, which is Amy Poehler’s directorial debut. Poehler, Rachel Dratch, Ana Gasteyer, Paula Pell, Maya Rudolph and Emily Spivey star and Fey will have a cameo. The comedy, written by Spivey and Liz Cackowski, follows long-time friends who head to Napa for the weekend to celebrate a 50th birthday.
Fey and her long-time producing and writing partner, Robert Carlock, co-executive produced and created the Netflix original comedy, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, starring Ellie Kemper as Kimmy Schmidt, the lovable and quirky survivor of a doomsday cult. The first season became available for streaming in March 2015 and was nominated in the Best Comedy category for the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards and also boasted four nominations for the talented cast, including a guest actress nod for Fey. The second and third seasons returned in 2016 and 2017 respectively and each season received Emmy nominations in the categories of Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for Ellie Kemper, and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for Titus Burgess. The first half of the fourth season was released in May 2018 and garnered Emmy nominations in the categories of Outstanding Comedy Series and Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for Tituss Burgess. The second half of the fourth and final season was released in January 2019. Fey and Carlock will bring Kimmy back in 2020 with an interactive special on Netflix.
Fey continues to be applauded for the iconic and groundbreaking seven-season run as the Executive Producer, head writer and star of NBC’s three-time (2007, 2008, 2009) Emmy Award-winning, one-of-a-kind comedy series 30 Rock. Her performances as Liz Lemon earned Fey an Emmy, two Golden Globes, four SAG Awards and a People’s Choice Award. In 2009, 30 Rock was nominated for a record 22 Emmy Awards, the most ever of any comedy series on television in a single season. From 2012 to 2013, 30 Rock received a total of 13 nominations for its final season, six of which were individual nominations for Fey.
Prior to creating 30 Rock, Fey completed nine seasons as head writer, cast member and co-anchor of the Weekend Update segment on Saturday Night Live. Fey is an Emmy winner and two-time Writers Guild Award winner for her writing on Saturday Night Live and won an Emmy in 2009 for Guest Appearance by an Actress in a Comedy Series for her portrayal of Sarah Palin on the 2008-2009 season of SNL. Fey also made Emmy history in 2016 when she and Amy Poehler became the first joint winners of Best Comedy Series Guest Actress for their SNL co-hosting appearance.
Carlock and Fey teamed up again with former 30 Rock writer Tracey Wigfield for the NBC sitcom Great News. It centers around a mother-daughter relationship that is challenged when an overly involved New Jersey mom, played by legend Andrea Martin, gets an internship at her daughter’s workplace. The sitcom ran for two seasons on NBC. Fey guest-starred as Diana St. Tropez.
Recently, NBC announced that they had issued a straight to series order from Fey and Carlock. The show will star Ted Danson as a wealthy businessman who runs for mayor of Los Angeles for all the wrong reasons. Once Danson’s character wins, he has to figure out what he stands for, gain the respect of his staff, and connect with his teenage daughter, all while controlling the coyote population.
Fey’s production company Little Stranger has also partnered with another comic icon, Carol Burnett, to produce the adaptation of Carol’s memoir “Carrie and Me: A Mother Daughter Love Story.”
In 2016, Fey starred in the Paramount film Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, the film adaptation of “The Taliban Shuffle” about real-life reporter Kim Barker. She also produced the drama with her company Little Stranger, in collaboration with Lorne Michaels and Broadway Video, about Baker and her experience covering the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Glenn Ficarra and John Requa directed the film.
In 2015, Fey co-starred alongside Amy Poehler in Universal Pictures’ Sisters, a box office success both domestically and internationally. Fey and Poehler played sisters who come home to find their parents’ house has been put up for sale. Sisters was directed by Jason Moore and written by long-time friend and colleague from Fey’s Saturday Night Live days, Paula Pell.
Fey has been recognized for her many achievements in front of and behind the camera, including being named The Associated Press’ Entertainer of the Year in 2008, one of Entertainment Weekly’s Entertainers of the Year on numerous occasions, one of People Magazine’s Most Beautiful People (four times), and one of Time magazine’s Prestigious Time 100 (two times). 30 Rock has earned her six individual Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe for Outstanding Comedy Series, a SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, three Writers Guild Awards for Outstanding Comedy Series and two Producers Guild Awards. Fey has also won two Gracie Awards and was the youngest recipient of the Mark Twain Award for American Humor in 2010. Fey also hosted the 2013 and 2014 Golden Globe Awards with Amy Poehler and both turns earned them two Emmy nominations each for Special Class Writing and Outstanding Special Class as hosts. Fey and Poehler hosted the Golden Globes for a final time in January 2015.
Fey wrote her first feature film in Spring 2004 in the hit comedy Mean Girls, which earned her a nomination for a Writers Guild Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. In 2014, she could be seen on the big screen co-starring in This Is Where I Leave You and Muppets: Most Wanted. She also appeared in the 2013 comedy sequel of Anchorman: The Legend Continues with a cameo role as well as the Focus Features film Admission. The film also starred Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, Paul Rudd and Christina Applegate. In 2010, Fey starred in 20th Century Fox’s film, Date Night, opposite Steve Carell and was a featured voice in the Dreamworks animated film Megamind. In 2008, she starred opposite Amy Poehler in the movie Baby Mama for Universal Pictures, which exceeded the $50 million-dollar mark at the U.S. box office.
In April 2011, Fey authored her first book, entitled “Bossypants,” which topped the New York Times bestseller list and remained for 39 consecutive weeks. The audiobook version, which Fey recorded, received a Grammy nomination for Best Spoken Word Album. “Bossypants” was published in paperback in January 2012 and has sold over 3.5 million copies thus far.
Fey lives in New York with her husband, Jeff Richmond, and their two daughters.
