Tracey Wigfield

Tracey Wigfield (born 1983) is an American comedy writer who won a Primetime Emmy Award in 2013 for her work on 30 Rock. She created, produced and appeared in the NBC sitcom Great News. 2Early life Raised in Wayne, New Jersey, Wigfield attended Catholic schools throughout grade school. As a child, she was involved in both acting and dance.She graduated in 2001 from the all-girls Immaculate Heart Academy in Washington Township, Bergen County, New Jersey. In high school, she used her parents' video camera to record comedy skits together with a friend.Wigfield graduated from Boston College, a Catholic university founded by the Jesuits, in 2005, where she majored in theater and English. 2Career After graduating, Wigfield moved back home and took an internship at CNN, then transferred to the page program at Late Show with David Letterman. She was then a production assistant on the short-lived television sitcom Knights of Prosperity.Wigfield was hired as a writer's assistant on 30 Rock during the show's second season. She moved up to staff writer and then producer. From other writers, she was referred to the Upright Citizens Brigade theatre where she began performing and writing.Wigfield and Tina Fey did much of the writing for the series finale of 30 Rock and the two went on to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for the episode, which aired on January 31, 2013. After 30 Rock had ended, Jack Burditt brought her to California to write for The Mindy Project, for which she and Mindy Kaling were co-executive producer