Janet Leahy

Janet Leahy
Personal Information
Gender:	Female
Nationality:	American
Career:	Television producer and writer
Series Involement
Episodes:	2 (writer) 18 (supervising producer) 23 (consulting producer)
Seasons:	8–9 (writer) 8 (supervising producer) 9 (consulting producer)

Janet Leahy is an Emmy Award nominated American television writer and producer. She has worked in both capacities on the AMC drama series Mad Men and won a WGA Award for her work on the show.

Janet served as a producer for 41 episodes of Roseanne from Seasons 8–9. She served as a consulting producer for the entirety of Season 9 (with the exception of "Hoi Polloi Meets Hoiti Toiti"), and served a supervising producer for 18 episodes of Season 8. She also wrote the script for two episodes.

She wrote the following episodes:

• Season 8
  • "Another Mouth to Shut Up" (teleplay by)

• Season 9
  • "Someday My Prince Will Come"

Biography

Leahy joined the crew of Mad Men as a consulting producer for the fourth season in 2010. She co-wrote the episode "The Summer Man" with series creator and executive producer Matthew Weiner and consulting producer Lisa Albert. Leahy and the writing staff won the WGA Award for Best Drama Series for their work on the fourth season. Some of Leahy's other television credits include The Cosby Show, Cheers, Roseanne, Boston Legal , Wings and Gilmore Girls.

Awards and nominations

• 1987 Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series for Cheers
• 2007 Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series for Boston Legal
• 2011 WGA Award for Best Drama Series for Mad Men

External links

• Janet Leahy at the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)