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<p>List of every famous television writer who has written for 30 Rock, listed alphabetically with photos when available. List includes anyone who was or is on the writing staff for 30 Rock. Staff writers as well as guest writers for 30 Rock are included when available, along with more information about each 30 Rock writer. If you're an aspiring writer and a fan of 30 Rock, then this writing staff from 30 Rock should be studied closely.  </p><p>The list you're viewing contains writers like Tina Fey and Donald Glover.</p>This list helps answer the question, “Who wrote for 30 Rock?”

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Andrew Guest

Andrew Guest is an American television writer. Guest's most notable works are episodes of Hope & Faith ("Faith Knows Squat", 2006) and 30 Rock ("Succession", 2008). Guest was also a member of the production staff on Hope & Faith and wrote episodes for Community. He was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Comedic Series at the February 2009 ceremony for his work on the third season of 30 Rock.

Brett Baer

Brett Baer is an American television producer, actor, and screenwriter who has worked on many successful television shows. Baer often works with his screenwriting partner Dave Finkel.

Daisy Gardner

Daisy Gardner (born September 24, 1976)  is an American television writer and comedian who is best known for her work as a writer on the NBC series 30 Rock,  Showtime's Californication, and Comedy Central's South Park. She also appears on TruTV Presents: World's Dumbest... as a commentator.

Dave Finkel

Dave Finkel (born May 15, 1970) is an American television producer, actor, and screenwriter who has worked on many successful television shows.  He often works with his screenwriting partner Brett Baer.

Donald Glover

Donald McKinley Glover Jr. (born September 25, 1983) is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, director, musician, and DJ. He performs music under the stage name Childish Gambino and as a DJ under the name mcDJ.
After coming to public attention for his work with Derrick Comedy while a student at New York University, he was hired at age 23 by Tina Fey as a writer for the NBC sitcom 30 Rock. He later portrayed community college student Troy Barnes on the NBC sitcom Community. He stars in the FX series Atlanta, which he created and occasionally directs. For his work on Atlanta, Glover won various accolades, including Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series, and Golden Globe Awards for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy and Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy. In film, Glover has appeared in Mystery Team (2009), The Lazarus Effect, Magic Mike XXL, The Martian (2015), Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017) and as the young Lando Calrissian in Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018). Glover starred in and produced his own short film, Guava Island (2019). He also provided the voice of  adult Simba in the remake of the Disney film The Lion King (2019).
After several self-released albums and mixtapes, Glover signed to Glassnote Records in 2011. He released his first studio album, Camp, on November 15, 2011, to generally positive reviews. His second studio album, Because the Internet, was released on December 10, 2013. Glover's third album, "Awaken, My Love!", was released on December 2, 2016, spawning the single "Redbone", which peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100, and eventually earned him a Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Performance. In 2017, Glover was included on the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world. In May 2018, Glover released the song and video for "This Is America", which debuted at number-one on the Hot 100. The song was nominated and won four Grammy Awards at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Rap/Sung Performance and Best Music Video. In early July 2018, Glover's EP Summer Pack was released which included the Grammy nominated for Best R&B Song song "Feels Like Summer".

Dylan Morgan

Dylan Morgan is a television producer and screenwriter.

Hannibal Buress

Hannibal Amir Buress (, born February 4, 1983) is an American comedian, actor, writer, and producer. He started performing comedy in 2002 while attending Southern Illinois University.  He has co-starred on Adult Swim's The Eric Andre Show since 2012 and was featured on Comedy Central's Broad City from 2014-2019.

Jack Burditt

Jack Burditt is an American producer and screenwriter who has worked on television shows like Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Frasier, 30 Rock, and The Mindy Project. He won two Emmy awards for his work on Frasier and three as an Executive Producer on 30 Rock. He currently working on Modern Family as Executive Producer.

John Riggi

John Riggi is an American television writer, producer, director, and actor who has worked on various television shows.  He is from Cincinnati, Ohio.  He attended high school at Elder High School, in Cincinnati, OH.
He has worked as a writer on the NBC comedy series 30 Rock. He was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Comedy Series at the February 2009 ceremony for his work on the third season of 30 Rock.

Josh Siegal

Josh Siegal is television producer and screenwriter.

Kay Cannon

Kay Cannon (born August 21, 1974) is an American screenwriter, producer, director, and actress. She is best known for writing and producing the Pitch Perfect film series (2012–2017). She made her directorial debut with the comedy film Blockers (2018).
Cannon was also a writer and producer for the NBC comedy series 30 Rock (2007–2012) and the FOX comedy series New Girl (2012–2014). She created, wrote and produced the short-lived Netflix comedy-drama series Girlboss (2017).

Matt Hubbard

Matt Hubbard is an American television writer and screenwriter who has worked on many television shows.  He graduated from Beverly High School, in Beverly, Massachusetts in the class of 1996, where he excelled in the English Department. He later went on to attend Harvard University where he was an editor for the Harvard Lampoon. He has worked as a writer on the NBC comedy series 30 Rock. He won Emmy awards in 2009 for both Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, for his 30 Rock episode "Reunion," and for Outstanding Comedy Series. He worked as a Consulting Producer on the last two seasons of Parks and Recreation.

Paula Pell

Paula Pell is an actress, screenwriter and TV producer.

Robert Carlock

Robert Morgan Carlock (born 1972) is an American screenwriter and producer. He has worked as a writer for several NBC television comedies, as a show runner for 30 Rock and as a co-creator of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

Ron Weiner

Ron Weiner (pronounced ) is an American television writer. He has written for several shows, including 30 Rock, NewsRadio, Futurama, Arrested Development,  Father of the Pride Help Me Help You' and Silicon Valley.
Weiner is the son of neurologist Howard L. Weiner. During his job writing for Futurama Ron has noted in the audio commentary of Spanish Fry that he tries to get Bender to dance in every episode he writes. He also noted in the commentary for "A Pharaoh to Remember" that he starts off writing his scripts by thinking of a series of dance moves, then building the episode around them.He has worked as a writer on the NBC comedy series 30 Rock. He was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Comedy Series at the February 2009 ceremony for his work on the third season. Later, he contacted producers for his father's screenplay The Last Poker Game, which was released in 2017.

Sam Means

Sam Means is an American comedy writer. He won three Emmy awards for his work on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and wrote for both 30 Rock and Parks and Recreation on NBC.  He is currently a writer and producer on the Netflix series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.Means received his A.B. from Dartmouth College, and an M.Phil. in philosophy from King's College, Cambridge. He began his comedy career as a cartoonist for The New Yorker and as a contributing writer for The Onion. He wrote the satirical book, A Practical Guide To Racism, in character as Professor "C. H. Dalton".

Steve Hely

Steve Hely is an American writer, current co-executive producer on the series Veep.
Hely has written for the television shows Late Show with David Letterman (receiving an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Comedy Show), Last Call with Carson Daly, where he also served as an associate producer, American Dad!, 30 Rock, and The Office.Hely has also authored or co-authored two books. The Ridiculous Race, written with Vali Chandrasekaran and published in 2008 by Macmillan, chronicled a real-life race around the world between Hely and Chandrasekaran. Each set off from Los Angeles in opposite directions, with only one rule: "No airplanes." In 2009, Grove/Atlantic published Hely's debut novel, How I Became a Famous Novelist. Hely subsequently won the 2010 Thurber Prize for American Humor for the novel.Hely is the co-host of The Great Debates, a weekly podcast in which he debates the great issues of the day with David King.  Hely often takes the pro, or more life-affirming stance.
Hely attended the Roxbury Latin School and Harvard University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree. While at Harvard, Hely served two terms as president of the Harvard Lampoon.

Tami Sagher

Tami Sagher is an American comedy writer, producer, and actress. She 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. In addition, she has contributed to This American Life.A native of Chicago, she studied mathematics at the University of Chicago before joining Boom Chicago and then Second City. She is a regular contributor to longtime Chicago radio personality Steve Dahl's Dahlcast.
Sagher has been nominated for 4 Writers Guild of America Awards, three for MADtv and one (in 2008 in the category of Best Comedy Series) for the third season of 30 Rock.Her performing includes playing an improv performer in Don't Think Twice, as well as various appearances on TV sitcoms and sketch shows.

Tina Fey

Elizabeth Stamatina "Tina" Fey (born May 18, 1970) is an American actress, comedian, writer, producer, and playwright. She is best known for her work on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live (1997–2006) and for creating the acclaimed comedy series 30 Rock (2006–2013) and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015–2019). Fey is also known for her work in film, with starring roles in Baby Mama (2008), Date Night (2010), Megamind (2010), Muppets Most Wanted (2014), Sisters (2015), Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016), and Wine Country (2019).
Fey broke into comedy as a featured player in the Chicago-based improvisational comedy group The Second City. She then joined SNL as a writer, later becoming head writer and a performer, known for her position as co-anchor in the Weekend Update segment and, later, for her satirical portrayal of 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in subsequent guest appearances. In 2004, she co-starred in and wrote the screenplay for Mean Girls, which was adapted from the 2002 self-help book Queen Bees and Wannabes. After leaving SNL in 2006, Fey created the television series 30 Rock for Broadway Video, a sitcom loosely based on her experiences at SNL. In the series, Fey starred as Liz Lemon, the head writer of a fictional sketch comedy series. In 2011, she released her memoir, Bossypants, which topped The New York Times Best Seller list for five weeks and garnered her a Grammy Award nomination. In 2015, she co-created the Netflix comedy series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Fey created the musical adaptation Mean Girls, which premiered on Broadway in 2018, and earned her a Tony Award nomination.
Fey has received nine Primetime Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, five Screen Actors Guild Awards, and seven Writers Guild of America Awards. In 2008, the Associated Press gave Fey the AP Entertainer of the Year award for her Sarah Palin impression on SNL. In 2010, Fey was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, becoming the youngest-ever recipient of the award.

Vali Chandrasekaran

Vali Chandrasekaran is a television producer and screenwriter.

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