About me
Micah Fitzerman-Blue & Noah Harpster won the Peabody Award, the PEN Award, and the Humanitas Prize for their work as screenwriters. They've also been nominated for the Emmy, Golden Globe, People's Choice, and multiple WGA Awards. Together, they spent four seasons writing and producing TRANSPARENT, and are writers and executive producers of A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, starring Tom Hanks as Mr. Rogers. They also wrote the sequel to MALEFICENT, and the adaptation of Jess Walter's novel BEAUTIFUL RUINS for Amblin and Sam Mendes.
Currently, they are showrunners and creators of the upcoming Netflix series PAINKILLER about the birth of the opioid crisis starring Matthew Broderick and Uzo Abuda. They are also writing BAMBI for Disney, and are working with Blumhouse to tell the story of Vince McMahon and the rise of the WWE. They are set to make their directorial debut later this year with BOTTOMLESS BELLY BUTTON, their adaptation of Dash Shaw's graphic novel, starring Jason Schwartzman and Abbi Jacobson.
Harpster is also an actor, known mostly for playing Remy in Tig Notaro's ONE MISSISSIPPI, and all three seasons of the Apple series, FOR ALL MANKIND. He grew up in Salinas, California, attended UCSB, and lives in LA with his wife and their two daughters.