--- name: "Lee Eisenberg" canonical: "https://film.one/person/lee-eisenberg" fi1m_id: "lee-eisenberg" imdb_id: "nm1072409" tmdb_id: 84417 wikidata_id: "Q6513524" roles: ["Writer","Producer","Director"] born: "5 April 1977" reviewed_on_fi1m: 5 average_fi1m_score: 64 average_as: "writer" average_over: 2 updated: "2026-10-22T01:36:25.698583+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." --- # Lee Eisenberg ## Identity Lee Eisenberg - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lee-eisenberg - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** lee-eisenberg - **IMDb ID:** nm1072409 - **TMDB ID:** 84417 - **Wikidata ID:** Q6513524 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Eisenberg, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6513524, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1072409/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/84417 Writer and producer. Born 5 April 1977 in Needham, Massachusetts, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Writer, Producer, Director - **Born:** 5 April 1977, Needham, Massachusetts, USA - **Active:** 2005–present - **Also known as:** 리 아이젠버그 - **Titles on Fi1m:** 5: 1 acting, 1 directing, 2 writing, 1 producing - **Frequently works with:** [Tara Miele](https://film.one/person/tara-miele.md) - **Average Fi1m score:** 64, as writer, over 2 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 77 (1), 2020s 62 (4) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Eisenberg, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6513524, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1072409/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/84417 ## Streaming the US now - **Apple TV:** [*Little America*](https://film.one/tv/little-america.md) (82), [*Brothers*](https://film.one/tv/brothers.md) (47) - **Peacock:** [*The Office*](https://film.one/tv/the-office-2005.md) (77) - **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Lessons in Chemistry*](https://film.one/tv/lessons-in-chemistry.md) (63) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Lee Eisenberg > Lee Eisenberg has a useful instinct for comedy about difficult people with recognisable needs. We like the feeling beneath the jokes in *The Office*, with reservations about the overplaying, and would put his writing partnerships first in assessing his work. In *The Office* (2005), Steve Carell makes an exhausting boss worth spending time with by letting his neediness show. That is a useful starting point for Lee Eisenberg, who helped write the series and occasionally directed it. His interest in small, recognisable human problems suits a comedy that needs us to tolerate difficult company. The jokes have to leave enough room for the cast to make those people worth knowing. We warmed to Carell's boss because his neediness made the difficult behaviour easier to understand. The cast is the reason we recommend the series, though the borrowed beginnings and occasional overplaying count against it. When the acting pushes too hard, the comedy becomes tiring. Eisenberg's preference for character-led humour is persuasive here, but the programme also shows how easily such humour can be overdone. Gene Stupnitsky, his long-term writing and producing partner, is central to the work that followed. They co-wrote *Year One* (2009) with Harold Ramis and the screenplay for *Bad Teacher* (2011), extending their partnership into features. Eisenberg's television work continued with *Hello Ladies* (2013), co-created with Stephen Merchant. These partnerships matter when assessing the humour: there is more than one writer deciding how far a joke should go and what a character can bear. *Lessons in Chemistry* (2023) makes the later turn towards dramatic material clearer, with Eisenberg serving as creator, writer and showrunner on the adaptation. Its attention to preserving character and tone fits the same interest in making people recognisable. *Jury Duty* (2023), which he co-created and wrote, brings that interest to a series combining scripted comedy with reality television. His limited directing work gives us little basis for declaring a personal visual style. That distinction matters when a page of credits can make every collaboration look like a personal statement. Start with *The Office* for its funny, fallible people, and make allowances for the moments when the actors try too hard. ## Biography Lee Eisenberg is an American film and television writer and producer. He usually works with Gene Stupnitsky, with whom he founded Quantity Entertainment. Eisenberg was born on 5 April 1977 in Needham, Massachusetts. He graduated from Connecticut College in 1999. In 2005, he and Stupnitsky joined the staff of the NBC series *The Office*, remaining until 2010; they wrote multiple episodes and he directed two, including "The Lover". He has writing credits on films including *Year One* (2009), *Bad Teacher* (2011) and *Good Boys* (2019), and on series including *Hello Ladies* (2013), *WeCrashed* (2022), *Lessons in Chemistry* (2023) and *Jury Duty* (2023). Eisenberg is creator and showrunner of the Apple TV+ series *Brothers* (2026). *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (5) ### Performed in (1) - *Lessons in Chemistry* (2023), Fi1m 63, as Funeral Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/lessons-in-chemistry.md) ### Directed (1) - *The Office* (2005), Fi1m 77, Director, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-office-2005.md) ### Wrote (2) — the average rests on these - *Brothers* (2026), Fi1m 47, Story, Teleplay, Creator, Executive Producer, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/brothers.md) - *Little America* (2020), Fi1m 82, Teleplay, Executive Producer, Creator — [page](https://film.one/tv/little-america.md) ### Produced (1) - *Stick* (2025), Fi1m 58, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/stick.md) ## Complete filmography (23) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Brothers* (2026), series, Executive Producer, Creator — Fi1m 47, [page](https://film.one/tv/brothers.md) - *Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat* (2026), series, Executive Producer, Creator - *Stick* (2025), series, Executive Producer — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/tv/stick.md) - *The Garfield Movie* (2024), as Additional Writing — Fi1m 47, [page](https://film.one/film/the-garfield-movie.md) - *Lessons in Chemistry* (2023), series, Funeral Director, Executive Producer, Teleplay, Creator — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/tv/lessons-in-chemistry.md) - *Jury Duty* (2023), series, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator - *Queer as Folk* (2022), series, Executive Producer - *WeCrashed* (2022), series, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator - *Little America* (2020), series, Executive Producer, Teleplay, Creator — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/little-america.md) - *Good Boys* (2019), as Leigh Eisenberg · Producer, Writer - *SMILF* (2017), series, Executive Producer - *The Angry Birds Movie* (2016), Creative Consultant - *Hello Ladies: The Movie* (2014), Writer, Executive Producer - *Bad Teacher* (2014), series, Executive Producer, Characters - *Hello Ladies* (2013), series, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator - *Trophy Wife* (2013), series, Executive Producer - *Stephen Merchant: Hello Ladies... Live!* (2011), Writer, Executive Producer - *Bad Teacher* (2011), as Blacksmith (Re-Enactor) · Screenplay, Executive Producer - *Year One* (2009), as Sodom Sentry · Screenplay - *The Office* (2005), series, as Gino · Writer, Producer, Director, Co-Executive Producer — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-office-2005.md) - *The Mind of the Married Man* (2001), series, Writer - *The Sham*, Producer - *Once and Again*, Producer --- © 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/lee-eisenberg