Eli Attie is a screenwriter and former political aide. He was a writer and ultimately supervising producer for the NBC-TV series The West Wing durin...
Eli Attie is a screenwriter and former political aide. He was a writer and ultimately supervising producer for the NBC-TV series The West Wing during the last five of its seven seasons, for which he was nominated for five Emmy Awards and two Writers Guild awards (winning one Emmy for a West Wing documentary special). He served briefly as co-executive producer of the NBC show Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. He has also written about pop music for The Washington Post and other publications, and won ASCAP's Deems-Taylor Award for best pop music writing in 2003).
Prior to his work in the entertainment industry, Attie served as chief speechwriter for Al Gore from 1997 until Gore's concession of the 2000 election, and before that worked for President Bill Clinton and House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt.
