Raised in Wayne, New Jersey,[2] Wigfield attended Catholic schools throughout grade school.[3] As a child, she was involved in both acting and dance.[2]
Wigfield was hired as a writers' assistant on 30 Rock during the show's second season. She moved up to staff writer and then producer.[2] From other writers, she was referred to the Upright Citizens Brigade theatre where she began performing and writing.[2][6]
After 30 Rock ended, Jack Burditt brought her to California to write for The Mindy Project, for which she and Mindy Kaling were co-executive producers.[4] She appeared on the show as Dr. Lauren Neustadter. Wigfield created the NBC sitcom Great News, her first pilot, of which Fey is an executive producer.[2] The series follows a producer at a news station whose mother begins an internship at the company.[2]
Personal life
Wigfield was raised Roman Catholic and today describes herself as a "Sorta Catholic."[3] In a 2017 America magazine piece, she described being Catholic as "not a huge part of my deal... I practice what I call “Chipotle Catholicism”: I go down the line picking and choosing the parts of Catholicism that appeal to me (charity, Pope Frank, spooky stories about saints) in order to create a custom-made spiritual burrito."[3]
Wigfield married comedy writer Adam Countee on May 21, 2016 in Manhattan.[7] They have two daughters and a son.
