External links
- Juli Weiner at IMDb
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Juli Weiner | |
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| Education | Barnard College (BA) |
| Occupation | Screenwriter |
| 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]
Weiner is a native of Maple Glen, Pennsylvania. [4] Her father is a breast 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]
She is a writer for the HBO series The Franchise and The Regime. [18] [19] [20]
Weiner married The New York Times reporter Michael Grynbaum in 2019 at the National Arts Club, [21] and has contributed pieces to The New York Times. [22]
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