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Amy Berg (writer)

American television producer and writer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ4749101 ↗
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Amy Berg (born May 5) is an American screenwriter and television showrunner.

Biography

Berg grew up in Castro Valley, California.

Berg has worked in various writer, producer, and showrunner capacities on TV shows including Counterpart, Jack Ryan, The Alienist, Da Vinci's Demons, Person of Interest, Eureka, Leverage, and The 4400.

Her other television credits include Boomtown, Threshold and Warrior Nun.

Berg was a featured performer at w00tstock 3.0 during San Diego Comic Con in 2011. In September 2011, she made a guest appearance as herself in an episode of Felicia Day's web series The Guild. In May 2013 she made a guest appearance as herself in an episode of Wil Wheaton's web series TableTop.

On April 15, 2019, Berg joined several other writers in firing their agents as part of the WGA's stand against the ATA and the practice of packaging.

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Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 2013, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1901. The account is most persuasive where Berg, writer and American can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Amy Berg (writer)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.