Lisa Albert is an American television writer and producer. She was born in

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, and is currently based out of

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. Albert originally began working in publishing until she switched to television writing in 1986. She worked on the

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drama series ''

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'' as a writer and producer and won a

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for her work on the show.

Early life

Lisa Albert graduated from

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in 1981. She was an honors graduate in English Literature.

Career

Albert served as a producer for the first season of ''

'' and co-wrote two episodes of the season. Alongside her colleagues on the writing staff, she won a

for Best New Series and was nominated for Best Dramatic Series at the February 2008 ceremony for her work on the season. She returned as a supervising producer for the second season and continued to write episodes. She was nominated for the WGA award for Best Dramatic Series a second time at the February 2009 ceremony for her work on the second season. After being nominated for the third consecutive year, Albert won the WGA Award for Best Drama Series at the February 2010 ceremony for her work on the third season. Albert's work on ''Mad Men'' was recognized through an award from Peabody, three

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, and four Writers Guild of America Awards. In 2007, Albert and her fellow producers, Tom Palmer,

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, Kater Gordon,

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, and Maria and Andre Jacquemetton, collectively accepted an Emmy for the show's pilot episode and received a nomination for their episode, "The Wheel". In an interview at the Screenwriters' Festival, Albert said that despite the sexism of the era in which the show was set, she hoped viewers would see its feminist qualities. Albert credited her and her coworkers' success to the complexity of their script. She and her fellow female writers have been known to meet together in Albert's home, spending time drawing from their own experiences as women to enhance the complexity with which they drafted the female characters on the show. Some of her other television writing credits include ''

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'', '' Soul Man'', '' Beautiful People'', and '' Halt and Catch Fire''.

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