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Kevin Bleyer

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Host
The Backdrop
Participates in 1 Session
Kevin Bleyer is a television writer, book writer, speechwriter, ghostwriter, playwriter, constitution rewriter, and wrong-righter.


A veteran of late night, for most of the last decade Bleyer was a writer for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He spent most of the previous decade as a writer and producer for Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher and Dennis Miller. In episodic television, he was a staff writer for FOX’s Sleepy Hollow and Bravo’s Significant Others, and created and executive produced pilots for Comedy Central and Showtime.

Bleyer is the bestselling author of Me the People: One Man’s Selfless Quest to Rewrite the Constitution of the United States of America, the co-author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Earth (The Book), and the co-author, with Gov. Bill Richardson, of How to Sweet-Talk a Shark. As a speechwriter, Bleyer contributed to many of the (funnier) speeches of President Barack Obama. He has written for NASA astronauts, sitting senators, foreign diplomats, US Ambassadors, and even served for a time as the Deputy Chief Speechwriter for the Mayor of New York City.

He was a writer and producer for NBC News’ Today Show and MSNBC’s Ronan Farrow Daily, and is the co-founder of Pilot Media Initiatives, which helps launch political satire television shows in democratically-challenged countries.

He has received four Emmy Awards, a Peabody Award, a Writers Guild of America Award, and was an Audie Award finalist for narrating the audiobook of Me the People.

Sessions in which Kevin Bleyer participates

Sunday 26 January, 2020

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
  • The Backdrop: Live Show
  • New York Hilton Midtown - Regent Room
  • 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM  | 30 minutes
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  • Podcast
    Broadway Podcast Network