Juli Weiner
| Juli Weiner | |
|---|---|
| Education | Barnard College (BA) |
| Occupation | television writer, blogger |
| Years active | 2010 – present |
| Awards | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series (2016–2020) |
Juli Weiner is an American writer known for her work on the HBO show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.[1][2][3]
Biography
Weiner is a native of Maple Glen, Pennsylvania.[4] Her father is a heart surgeon.[5] She graduated from Upper Dublin High School and from Barnard College in 2010.[6] In college, she interned for Teen Vogue and blogged for Wonkette.[7][8] She also wrote for The Huffington Post and The New Yorker.[9][10] She was also the editor of Bwog and The Blue and White, both student-run publications at Columbia. She joined Vanity Fair in February 2010 while an undergraduate at Barnard.[11] Donald Trump called her a "bad writer" after she wrote an online piece critical of him in 2011.[12]
Weiner joined the staff of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver as one of only two women in the writing staff.[13][14] She won five Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series as a member of the writing staff from 2016 to 2020 and was nominated for another Emmy Award in 2015.[15] She is a four-time winner of the Writers Guild of America Award for Television: Comedy-Variety Talk Series.[16][17] In 2015, she was named one of the Forbes 30 Under 30.[14]
In 2022, she was tapped as one of the writers for the new HBO series The Palace.[18][19]
Personal life
Weiner married The New York Times reporter Michael Grynbaum in 2019 at the National Arts Club,[20] and has contributed pieces to The New York Times.[21]
See also
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External links
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