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Tracey Wigfield (born June 19, 1983) is an American comedy writer. She created, produced and appeared in the NBC sitcom Great News. She also developed the Peacock teen sitcom Saved By The Bell, a revival of the original series of the same name created by Sam Bobrick.

Early life

Raised in Wayne, New Jersey, Wigfield attended Catholic schools throughout grade school. As a child, she was involved in both acting and dance.

She graduated in 2001 from the all-girls Immaculate Heart Academy in Washington Township, Bergen County, New Jersey. In high school, she used her parents' video camera to record comedy skits together with a friend.

Wigfield graduated from Boston College in 2005, where she majored in theater and English.

Career

After graduating, Wigfield moved back home and took an internship at CNN, then transferred to the page program at Late Show with David Letterman. She was then a production assistant on the short-lived television sitcom Knights of Prosperity.

Wigfield was hired as a writers' assistant on 30 Rock during the show's second season. She moved up to staff writer and then producer. From other writers, she was referred to the Upright Citizens Brigade theatre where she began performing and writing.

Wigfield and Tina Fey did much of the writing for the series finale of 30 Rock and the two went on to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for the episode, which aired on January 31, 2013.

After 30 Rock ended, Jack Burditt brought her to California to write for The Mindy Project, for which she and Mindy Kaling were co-executive producers. She appeared on the show as Dr. Lauren Neustadter. Wigfield created the NBC sitcom Great News, her first pilot, of which Fey is an executive producer. The series follows a producer at a news station whose mother begins an internship at the company.

Personal life

Wigfield was raised Roman Catholic and today describes herself as a "Sorta Catholic." In a 2017 America magazine piece, she described being Catholic as "not a huge part of my deal... I practice what I call “Chipotle Catholicism”: I go down the line picking and choosing the parts of Catholicism that appeal to me (charity, Pope Frank, spooky stories about saints) in order to create a custom-made spiritual burrito."

Wigfield married comedy writer Adam Countee on May 21, 2016 in Manhattan. They have two daughters and a son.

Filmography

References

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2. ^ "BA #180: Tracey Wigfield". the Box Angeles podcast. May 23, 2017.
3. ^ "A Sorta Catholic's Very Catholic Wedding". America Magazine. 2017-04-20. Retrieved 2017-05-21.
4. ^ Winters, Debra. "Wayne native Tracey Wigfield scores Emmy for '30 Rock' writing", Wayne Today, September 27, 2013. Accessed October 27, 2013. "Wigfield graduated from Immaculate Heart Academy, an all girls school located in Washington Township, in 2001."
5. "Soaring Eagles", Boston College, October 1, 2013; accessed October 27, 2013.
6. Tracey Wigfield profile, ucbtheatre.com; accessed October 27, 2013.
7. nytimes.com; accessed December 11, 2018

External links

• Tracey Wigfield at IMDb

• 1983 births
• 20th-century American writers
• 20th-century Roman Catholics
• 21st-century American women writers
• 21st-century Roman Catholics
• American comedy writers
• Immaculate Heart Academy alumni
• American women television producers
• American television writers
• Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences alumni
• Living people
• People from Wayne, New Jersey
• Primetime Emmy Award winners
• American women television writers
• Catholics from New Jersey
• Screenwriters from New Jersey
• 21st-century American screenwriters
• Writers Guild of America Award winners
• Television producers from New Jersey
• 20th-century American women
• Comedians from New Jersey
• American women comedians