Film and television producer, director, screenwriter.
Jeffrey Michael Lieber is an American screenwriter for both television and film. He is credited as a co-creator of the television seriesLost. In addition to writing for television and film, Lieber blogged (through 2016[1]) at the website dailykos. His blog posts appeared as "diaries" rather than front-page posts and typically had a satirical take on the news.
ABC hired Lieber, based on his pitch with studio Spelling Television, to write a pilot for Lost. Lieber's initial pitch for the series, then titled Nowhere, was a realistic drama series heavily influenced by Lord of the Flies and Cast Away. As the project developed, ABC soured on the direction they had given Lieber, and approached J. J. Abrams and Damon Lindelof, who had an overall deal with their own studio, to rewrite.[2][3] An industry-standard arbitration was triggered by the competing drafts and the Writers Guild of America (WGA) ultimately recognized Lieber as co-creator of the show (Lieber shares story credit with Abrams and Lindelof on the pilot). Aside from his initial pilot scripts, Lieber had no further input into Lost. Lieber and the Lost writing staff won the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Award for Best Dramatic Series at the February 2006 ceremony for their work on the first and second seasons.[4]