Tracy Wigfield

Chestnut Hill, MA (March 26, 2014) – The Boston College Communication Department and Theatre Department are pleased and proud to welcome alumna Tracey Wigfield back to campus for "How to write the final episode of 30 Rock: An Evening with Tracey Wigfield" on Monday, April 7, 2014 at 7:00 pm in Devlin 008.

A 2005 graduate of Boston College with majors in Theatre and Communication, Tracey will talk about her career and experience as a writer of network television comedy. A question-andanswer session will follow her remarks. "We're excited to have Tracey back," says Scott T. Cummings, Chair of the Theatre Department. "She's one of a growing number of BC grads who have burgeoning careers in Hollywood. She's living proof that you can get there from here."

Tracey is at present a writer and Supervising Producer on The Mindy Project, the hit situation comedy on FOX television starring Mindy Kaling which was recently renewed for a third season. She also performs improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade in New York and Los Angeles. She has contributed to The Onion and written screenplays that are in different stages of development.

In 2013, Tracey and Tina Fey received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series for their work on "Last Lunch," the series finale of 30 Rock. She is one of only a handful of women to win an Emmy in this category, which was first presented in 1955. She has also received six Writers Guild nominations, a Producers Guild nomination, and five Emmy nominations for her work on 30 Rock. The September 2013 issue of Glamour magazine named her -- along with other "inspiring women" such as Lena Dunham and Zoeey Deschanel -- as one of "35 Under 35 Women in Hollywood" whose careers are taking off like a rocket.

Tracey was a writer on 30 Rock for six years. Prior to that, she worked as a writer's assistant and, not long after graduating from Boston College, as a page for The Late Show with David Letterman. As a Theatre major at BC, Tracey acted in productions of Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Setzuan, the Stephen Sondheim/Hugh Wheeler musical A Little Night Music, and an original play called Zoë by classmate Richard Lawson. She is a native of Wayne, New Jersey.