--- name: "Lang Fisher" canonical: "https://film.one/person/lang-fisher" fi1m_id: "lang-fisher" imdb_id: "nm3265847" tmdb_id: 1532801 wikidata_id: "Q102251369" roles: ["Writer","Director","Producer"] born: "29 January 1980" reviewed_on_fi1m: 5 average_fi1m_score: 82 average_as: "writer" average_over: 2 updated: "2026-09-30T20:39:26.448183+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Lang Fisher ## Identity Lang Fisher - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lang-fisher - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** lang-fisher - **IMDb ID:** nm3265847 - **TMDB ID:** 1532801 - **Wikidata ID:** Q102251369 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lang_Fisher, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102251369, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3265847/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1532801 Writer and director. Born 29 January 1980. ## Details - **Work:** Writer, Director, Producer - **Born:** 29 January 1980 - **Active:** 2006–present - **Titles on Fi1m:** 5: 3 directing, 2 writing - **Frequently works with:** [Linda Mendoza](https://film.one/person/linda-mendoza.md), [Beth McCarthy-Miller](https://film.one/person/beth-mccarthy-miller.md), [Claire Scanlon](https://film.one/person/claire-scanlon.md), [Ken Whittingham](https://film.one/person/ken-whittingham.md), [Tracey Wigfield](https://film.one/person/tracey-wigfield.md), [Adam Countee](https://film.one/person/adam-countee.md), [Alex Reid](https://film.one/person/alex-reid-1224235.md), [Andrew Guest](https://film.one/person/andrew-guest.md) - **Average Fi1m score:** 82, as writer, over 2 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 86 (1), 2010s 75 (2), 2020s 69 (2) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lang_Fisher, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102251369, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3265847/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1532801 ## Streaming the US now - **Netflix:** [*Brooklyn Nine-Nine*](https://film.one/tv/brooklyn-nine-nine.md) (78), [*Never Have I Ever*](https://film.one/tv/never-have-i-ever-2020.md) (74), [*The Four Seasons*](https://film.one/tv/the-four-seasons.md) (64) - **Hulu:** [*30 Rock*](https://film.one/tv/30-rock.md) (86) - **Disney+:** [*The Mindy Project*](https://film.one/tv/the-mindy-project.md) (72) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Lang Fisher > Lang Fisher has spent most of her career writing other people's shows, and her gift is carrying a hard subject through a comedy without dropping the jokes. Running her own, on *The Four Seasons*, the structure holds and the jokes thin. A Lang Fisher episode tends to take on a subject the show around it would normally step past. *He Said, She Said*, her 2019 episode of *Brooklyn Nine-Nine*, takes workplace sexual assault into a precinct comedy built on running gags and a captain of unusual stillness, and it keeps the show's tone while it does so. That is a harder trick than it looks. Most of her career has been spent doing it under other people's names, which is the staff writer's lot: the credit is on screen, the voice is somebody else's. The career has the shape of a long apprenticeship. She began at The Onion and Onion News Network from 2007 to 2011, joined *30 Rock* for its final season in 2013, where she co-wrote *A Goon's Deed in a Weary World*, then wrote and co-executive produced on *The Mindy Project* from 2013 to 2017, directing one episode, and on *Brooklyn Nine-Nine* from 2017 to 2019. The turn came in 2020, when she co-created *Never Have I Ever* with Mindy Kaling and ran it for four seasons. Then, in 2025, *The Four Seasons*, co-created with Tina Fey and Tracey Wigfield, both from the *30 Rock* days, and the first time she directed episodes of a show she also ran. What she is good at is structure. Fey has described her as the one in a rewrite who connects the dots and gets the story from A to B, and you can feel it in *The Four Seasons*, which always knows where a scene is going even when the scene is not worth the trip. What she is less good at, on that evidence, is making the trip funny. We scored it 64. There is warmth in the cast, and Colman Domingo makes the holiday company worth an evening, but the writing too often settles for a marital grievance we recognised without a joke we had not heard. We kept waiting for the line that would sharpen the complaint into comedy, and more often than not the scene ended before it came. The nearest thing to a reservation about her, ours included, is that she has worked one seam for nearly twenty years: the workplace, the friendship group, the ensemble that makes everybody's relationship its business. *30 Rock* and *Brooklyn Nine-Nine* are the better evenings, and she is in both sets of credits, though we could not tell you which lines are hers, which is rather the point of a good writers' room. *The Four Seasons* is the first time we can. It is decent, and it is the same seam, worked with less appetite. The interesting question is what she writes when there is no group of friends left to write about. ## Biography Lang Fisher is an American television writer, producer and director. She graduated from Columbia University in 2002 after attending Fountain Valley School of Colorado. She began her career as a staff writer for *The Onion* and its television spin-off *Onion News Network*. Fisher wrote for the final season of *30 Rock* (2013). She served as writer, director and co-executive producer on *The Mindy Project* (2013–2017) and as writer and co-executive producer on *Brooklyn Nine-Nine* (2017–2019). She co-created the Netflix series *Never Have I Ever* (2020–2023) with Mindy Kaling, acting as showrunner, writer and director. She co-created *The Four Seasons* (2025) with Tina Fey and Tracey Wigfield for Netflix, serving as co-showrunner, writer and director. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, deadline.com.* ## On Fi1m (5) ### Directed (3) - *The Four Seasons* (2025), Fi1m 64, Writer, Director, Creator, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-four-seasons.md) - *Never Have I Ever* (2020), Fi1m 74, Writer, Creator, Director, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/never-have-i-ever-2020.md) - *The Mindy Project* (2012), Fi1m 72, Writer, Co-Executive Producer, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-mindy-project.md) ### Wrote (2) — the average rests on these - *Brooklyn Nine-Nine* (2013), Fi1m 78, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/brooklyn-nine-nine.md) - *30 Rock* (2006), Fi1m 86, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/30-rock.md) ## Complete filmography (6) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *The Four Seasons* (2025), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Director, Creator — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-four-seasons.md) - *Never Have I Ever* (2020), series, Executive Producer, Director, Writer, Creator — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/never-have-i-ever-2020.md) - *Late Night* (2019), Thanks - *Brooklyn Nine-Nine* (2013), series, Writer, Co-Executive Producer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/brooklyn-nine-nine.md) - *The Mindy Project* (2012), series, Writer, Co-Executive Producer, Director — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-mindy-project.md) - *30 Rock* (2006), series, Writer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/30-rock.md) --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/lang-fisher