Joe Weisberg
- Lois Weisberg (mother)
- Jacob Weisberg (brother)
Joseph Weisberg (born 1965/1966)[1] is an American television writer, producer, novelist, and school teacher.[2] Weisberg is best known as the creator and showrunner of the FX TV series The Americans and The Patient (co-created with Joel Fields).
Career
A 1987 graduate of Yale University, Weisberg became a CIA officer three years after graduation,[2] and after a short career with the Agency, Weisberg taught at The Summit School, a private special education high school in Queens, New York City until 2010 when he went on to pursue a career in television. One of his final projects at Summit School was helping students found the school newspaper, The Summit Sun.[3]
Weisberg wrote episodes for TNT's alien invasion series Falling Skies and the DirecTV legal drama Damages. He then created The Americans, an FX series centering on two KGB sleeper agents, who pose as American citizens in Washington, D.C. during the 1980s.[2] The Americans was executive-produced by Weisberg and Justified creator Graham Yost.[4][5] In 2022, Weisberg co-created and showran the limited FX series The Patient.
Weisberg authored two novels: 10th Grade and An Ordinary Spy.[6] An Ordinary Spy was nominated for the Believer Book Award.[7]
Weisberg is also the author of the non-fiction book Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy for the Second Cold War, which was published in 2021.[8]
Personal life
Weisberg grew up in a Jewish family in Chicago,[9] the son of civil rights attorney Bernard Weisberg and former Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Lois Weisberg.[2] He is the younger brother of Slate Group editor-in-chief Jacob Weisberg.[2]
Filmography
Falling Skies
- "Silent Kill" (1.05)
- "Mutiny" (1.09)
- "Love and Other Acts of Courage" (2.05)
Damages
- "Next One's on Me, Blondie" (4.04)
The Americans
- "Pilot" (1.01)
- "The Clock" (1.02)
- "In Control" (co-written with Joel Fields) (1.04)
- "Mutually Assured Destruction" (co-written with Joel Fields) (1.08)
- "The Colonel" (co-written with Joel Fields) (1.13)
- "Comrades" (co-written with Joel Fields) (2.01)
- "Cardinal" (co-written with Joel Fields) (2.02)
- "Operation Chronicle" (co-written with Joel Fields) (2.12)
- "Echo" (co-written with Joel Fields) (2.13)
- "EST Men" (co-written with Joel Fields) (3.01)
- "Baggage" (co-written with Joel Fields) (3.02)
- "Stingers" (co-written with Joel Fields) (3.10)
- "March 8, 1983" (co-written with Joel Fields) (3.13)
- "Glanders" (co-written with Joel Fields) (4.01)
- "Pastor Tim" (co-written with Joel Fields) (4.02)
- "Roy Rogers in Franconia" (co-written with Joel Fields) (4.12)
- "Persona Non Grata" (co-written with Joel Fields) (4.13)
- "Amber Waves" (co-written with Joel Fields) (5.01)
- "Pests" (co-written with Joel Fields) (5.02)
- "The World Council of Churches" (co-written with Joel Fields) (5.12)
- "The Soviet Division" (co-written with Joel Fields) (5.13)
- "Dead Hand" (co-written with Joel Fields) (6.01)
- "Tchaikovsky" (co-written with Joel Fields) (6.02)
- "Jennings, Elizabeth" (co-written with Joel Fields) (6.09)
- "START" (co-written with Joel Fields) (6.10)
The Patient
- All 10 episodes (co-written with Joel Fields)
Bibliography
- 10th Grade. Random House. 2002. ISBN 978-0375505843.
- An Ordinary Spy. Bloomsbury USA. 2008. ISBN 978-1596913769.
- Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy for the Second Cold War. PublicAffairs. 2021. ISBN 978-1541768628.
Accolades
Year | Award | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2022 | Peabody Awards | Entertainment | The Patient | Nominated | [10] |
References
- ^ Holson, Laura M. (March 29, 2013). "The Dark Stuff, Distilled". The New York Times.
- ^ a b c d e Holson, Laura M. (March 29, 2013). "The Dark Stuff, Distilled". New York Times. Retrieved April 2, 2016.
- ^ "News" (PDF). The Summit Sun. June 2010.
- ^ Bill Brioux (January 30, 2013). "The Americans debuts on FX Canada Jan. 30". Toronto Star. The Canadian Press. Retrieved February 15, 2013.
- ^ Andreeva, Nellie (December 16, 2011). "FX Greenlights Drama Pilot About 1980s KGB Spies Posing As U.S. Suburbanites". Deadline. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
- ^ Waxman, Olivia B. (January 30, 2013). "Q&A: The CIA Officer Behind the New Spy Drama The Americans". Time Magazine. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
- ^ "The Believer Book Award 2007 finalists". The Believer'. March–April 2008. Retrieved March 6, 2014.
- ^ "Russia Upside Down". Kirkus Reviews. July 15, 2021. Retrieved April 25, 2023.
- ^ Bloom, Nate (September 14, 2017). "Jewish entertainers well-represented at Emmy Awards". Saint Louis Jewish Light. Archived from the original on April 26, 2019. Retrieved May 30, 2018.
- ^ Voyles, Blake (September 20, 2023). "83rd Peabody Award Nominees". Retrieved September 20, 2023.
External links
- Joe Weisberg at IMDb
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- Reginald Rose for Twelve Angry Men (1955)
- Rod Serling for The Twilight Zone (1960)
- Rod Serling for The Twilight Zone (1961)
- Reginald Rose for The Defenders (1962)
- Robert Thom & Reginald Rose for "The Madman" (1963)
- Ernest Kinoy for "Blacklist" / Rod Serling for "It's Mental Work" (1964)
- David Karp for "The 700 Year Old Gang" (1965)
- Millard Lampell for "Eagle in a Cage" (1966)
- Bruce Geller for "Mission: Impossible" (1967)
- Loring Mandel for "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" (1968)
- JP Miller for "The People Next Door" (1969)
- Richard Levinson & William Link for "My Sweet Charlie" (1970)
- Joel Oliansky for "To Taste of Death But Once" (1971)
- Richard Levinson & William Link for "Death Lends a Hand" (1972)
- John McGreevey for "The Scholar" (1973)
- Joanna Lee for "The Thanksgiving Story" (1974)
- Howard Fast for "Benjamin Franklin: The Ambassador" (1975)
- Sherman Yellen for "John Adams: Lawyer" (1976)
- William Blinn & Ernest Kinoy for "Show #2" (1977)
- Gerald Green for "Holocaust" (1978)
- Michele Gallery for "Dying" (1979)
- Seth Freeman for "Cop" (1980)
- Michael Kozoll & Steven Bochco for "Hill Street Station" (1981)
- Steven Bochco & Michael Kozoll & Jeff Lewis & Michael Wagner & Anthony Yerkovich for "Freedom's Last Stand" (1982)
- David Milch for "Trial by Fury" (1983)
- John Ford Noonan, John Masius & Tom Fontana for "The Women" (1984)
- Patricia Green for "Who Said It's Fair, Part 2" (1985)
- Tom Fontana, John Masius & Joe Tinker for "Time Heals, Parts I & II" (1986)
- Steven Bochco & Terry Louise Fisher for "The Venus Butterfly" (1987)
- Paul Haggis & Marshall Herskovitz for "Business as Usual" (1988)
- Joseph Dougherty for "First Day/Last Day" (1989)
- David E. Kelley for "Blood, Sweat, and Fears" (1990)
- David E. Kelley for "On the Toad Again" (1991)
- Diane Frolov & Andrew Schneider for "Seoul Mates" (1992)
- Tom Fontana for "Three Men and Adena" (1993)
- Ann Biderman for "Steroid Roy" (1994)
- Lance A. Gentile for "Love's Labor Lost" (1995)
- Darin Morgan for "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" (1996)
- David Milch, Stephen Gaghan and Michael R. Perry for "Where's Swaldo?" (1997)
- David Milch, Nicholas Wootton and Bill Clark for "Lost Israel: Part II" (1998)
- James Manos Jr. and David Chase for "College" (1999)
- Rick Cleveland & Aaron Sorkin for "In Excelsis Deo" (2000)
- Mitchell Burgess & Robin Green for "Employee of the Month" (2001)
- Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran for "12:00 a.m. – 1:00 a.m." (2002)
- Mitchell Burgess & David Chase & Robin Green for "Whitecaps" (2003)
- Terence Winter for "Long Term Parking" (2004)
- David Shore for "Three Stories" (2005)
- Terence Winter for "Members Only" (2006)
- David Chase for "Made in America" (2007)
- Matthew Weiner for "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (2008)
- Kater Gordon & Matthew Weiner for "Meditations in an Emergency" (2009)
- Erin Levy & Matthew Weiner for "Shut the Door. Have a Seat." (2010)
- Jason Katims for "Always" (2011)
- Alex Gansa & Howard Gordon & Gideon Raff for "Pilot" (Homeland) (2012)
- Henry Bromell for "Q&A" (2013)
- Moira Walley-Beckett for "Ozymandias" (2014)
- David Benioff & D. B. Weiss for "Mother's Mercy" (2015)
- David Benioff & D. B. Weiss for "Battle of the Bastards" (2016)
- Bruce Miller for "Offred" (2017)
- Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg for "START" (2018)
- Jesse Armstrong for "Nobody Is Ever Missing" (2019)
- Jesse Armstrong for "This Is Not for Tears" (2020)
- Peter Morgan for "War" (2021)
- Jesse Armstrong for "All the Bells Say" (2022)
- Jesse Armstrong for "Connor's Wedding" (2023)
- Will Smith for "Negotiating with Tigers" (2024)