Justin Spitzer

Justin Spitzer is an American television and film writer, producer, and showrunner. He is best known for creating the sitcoms Superstore and American Auto. His other credits include Scrubs, Courting Alex, and The Office.

Career
Spitzer was an assistant on the sitcom Grounded for Life and on fourteen episodes of the American adaptation of Queer as Folk. From 2008 to 2013, he was a writer and producer for the American adaptation of The Office. In 2013 he wrote a pilot based on The Money Pit that was put into development by NBC but ultimately never aired.

He created the workplace sitcom Superstore, starring America Ferrera and Ben Feldman, which had a midseason premiere on NBC in 2015. He served as showrunner for three seasons before stepping down in 2019 while signing a multi-year deal with NBC and Universal Television. The series continued to run for three more seasons after Spitzer's departure.

In 2020, NBC ordered a pilot for Spitzer's comedy American Auto. The series premiered in 2021 and ran for two seasons before being canceled in 2023. In August 2021, Spitzer had signed a new four-year overall deal with Universal Television.

Personal life
On November 24, 2007, he married producer and writer Jenna Bans. They have two children named Lucy and Phoebe.