Carrie Kemper (born March 16, 1984) is an American
television writer
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
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who worked as a staff writer on the
NBC
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sitcom ''
The Office
''The Office'' is a mockumentary sitcom created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, first made in the United Kingdom, then Germany, and subsequently the United States. It has since been remade in ten other countries.
The original series of ...
''. She is the sister of actress
Ellie Kemper
Elizabeth Claire Kemper (born May 2, 1980) is an American actress and comedian. She has been nominated for a Critics' Choice Movie Award, two Critics' Choice Television Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, three Satellite Awards, and seven Scre ...
.
Career
Kemper worked as a staff writer on ''The Office'' from the beginning of the show's
seventh season. She wrote the episodes
"Ultimatum" (season 7, episode 13);
"Spooked" (season 8, episode 5);
"The Whale", in which she appeared as Jan Levinson's assistant Molly (season 9, episode 7); and "
Junior Salesman
"Junior Salesman" is the thirteenth episode of the The Office (U.S. season 9), ninth season of the American comedy television series ''The Office (U.S. TV series), The Office'' and the 189th episode overall. It originally aired on NBC on January 31 ...
" (season 9, episode 13). In 2010, Kemper and 21 other writers shared a
Writers Guild of America
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* The Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE), headquartered in New York City and affiliated with the AFL–CIO
* The Writers Guil ...
award nomination for their work on ''The Office''.
In 2013, she had a brief appearance in the ''
Arrested Development
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'' episode "Smashed" as Mrs. Astronaut Lovel.
In 2014, she joined ''
Silicon Valley
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'' as a writer and producer. In 2019, she won a
Writers Guild of America Award
The Writers Guild of America Awards is an award for film, television, and radio writing including both fiction and non-fiction categories given by the Writers Guild of America, East and Writers Guild of America West since 1949.
Eligibility
Th ...
for her work on ''
Nathan for You''.
In 2022 she worked as a writer on ''
The Rehearsal''.
References
External links
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American television writers
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
American women television writers
Carrie
Carrie may refer to:
People
* Carrie (name), a female given name and occasionally a surname
Places in the United States
* Carrie, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
* Carrie, Virginia, an unincorporated community
* Carrie Glacier, Olympic Nati ...
21st-century American screenwriters
21st-century American women writers
American people of Breton descent
American people of English descent
American people of German descent
American people of Italian descent
1980 births
Writers from Kansas City, Missouri
Screenwriters from Missouri
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