Joe Weisberg

Joseph Weisberg (born 1965/1966)^[1] is an American television writer, producer, novelist, and school teacher.^[2] Weisberg is best known as the creator and showrunner of the FX TV series The Americans and The Patient (co-created with Joel Fields).

Career

A 1987 graduate of Yale University, Weisberg became a CIA officer three years after graduation,^[2] and after a short career with the Agency, Weisberg taught at The Summit School, a private special education high school in Queens, New York City until 2010 when he went on to pursue a career in television. One of his final projects at Summit School was helping students found the school newspaper, The Summit Sun.^[3]

Weisberg wrote episodes for

Weisberg authored two novels: 10th Grade and An Ordinary Spy.[6] An Ordinary Spy was nominated for the Believer Book Award.^[7]

Weisberg is also the author of the non-fiction book Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy for the Second Cold War, which was published in 2021.^[8]

Personal life

Weisberg grew up in a Jewish family in Chicago,^[9] the son of civil rights attorney Bernard Weisberg and former Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Lois Weisberg.^[2] He is the younger brother of Slate Group editor-in-chief Jacob Weisberg.^[2]

Filmography

Falling Skies

• "Silent Kill" (1.05)
• "Mutiny" (1.09)
• "Love and Other Acts of Courage" (2.05)

Damages

• "Next One's on Me, Blondie" (4.04)

The Americans

• "Pilot" (1.01)
• "The Clock" (1.02)
• "In Control" (co-written with Joel Fields) (1.04)
• "Mutually Assured Destruction" (co-written with Joel Fields) (1.08)
• "The Colonel" (co-written with Joel Fields) (1.13)
• "Comrades" (co-written with Joel Fields) (2.01)
• "Cardinal" (co-written with Joel Fields) (2.02)
• "Operation Chronicle" (co-written with Joel Fields) (2.12)
• "Echo" (co-written with Joel Fields) (2.13)
• "EST Men" (co-written with Joel Fields) (3.01)
• "Baggage" (co-written with Joel Fields) (3.02)
• "Stingers" (co-written with Joel Fields) (3.10)
• "March 8, 1983" (co-written with Joel Fields) (3.13)
• "Glanders" (co-written with Joel Fields) (4.01)
• "Pastor Tim" (co-written with Joel Fields) (4.02)
• "Roy Rogers in Franconia" (co-written with Joel Fields) (4.12)
• "Persona Non Grata" (co-written with Joel Fields) (4.13)
• "Amber Waves" (co-written with Joel Fields) (5.01)
• "Pests" (co-written with Joel Fields) (5.02)
• "The World Council of Churches" (co-written with Joel Fields) (5.12)
• "The Soviet Division" (co-written with Joel Fields) (5.13)
• "Dead Hand" (co-written with Joel Fields) (6.01)
• "Tchaikovsky" (co-written with Joel Fields) (6.02)
• "Jennings, Elizabeth" (co-written with Joel Fields) (6.09)
• "START" (co-written with Joel Fields) (6.10)

The Patient

• All 10 episodes (co-written with Joel Fields)

Bibliography

• 10th Grade.
  ISBN 978-0375505843
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• An Ordinary Spy.
  ISBN 978-1596913769
  .
• Russia Upside Down: An Exit Strategy for the Second Cold War.
  ISBN 978-1541768628
  .

External links

• Joe Weisberg at
  IMDb