Spotlight: Women Behind the Scenes – Amy Berg

Amy Berg

Today’s Women Behind the Scenes spotlight is shone on Co-Executive Producer, Writer and Supervising Producer Amy Berg.

In college, Amy was encouraged by an English professor to go to film school based on a paper she wrote on character motivations in Hamlet. Once she graduated from college, she headed to Los Angeles, where she ended up getting a meeting with Joss Whedon from the first script she wrote. While the second script she wrote was sold to the cable channel Nickelodeon, launching her as a working writer six months after she got to town.

That was in 1998 when she was a writer on the comedy series Kenan & Kel where she remained until 2000. It was also during this time that she worked as a writer on the sketch comedy series All That from 1999 to 2001.

In 2002, she worked as a writer on the acclaimed, but short-lived series Boomtown. Three years later, she became a writer for the short-lived series North Shore and as a writer and story editor for another short-lived series Threshold.

The following year she became not only a story editor but also a writer on the popular USA Network series The 4400 eventually becoming an executive story editor and remaining a writer on The 4400 as well.

In 2008, Amy began to move up the ladder by becoming a writer for Leverage and in the next year she became a supervising producer and, again, remained a writer for the series through 2010. Her most recent work has been on the popular Syfy series Eureka where she works as a writer and executive producer, combining her love of comedy and sci-fi.

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