Jeffrey Blitz

Jeffrey Blitz is an American film director, screenwriter and producer best known for the documentary Spellbound (2003), The Office (2007 - 2010), the fiction film Rocket Science (2007) and Comedy Central’s Review (2014 - 2017). Blitz is a two-time Emmy Award winner, the winner of the Directing Prize at Sundance and an Academy Award nominee. Personal life Blitz grew up in New York City and then New Jersey to an Argentinian mother and an American father. He is brother to comedian Andy Blitz and constitutional law scholar Marc Blitz. While a student at Ridgewood High School in Ridgewood, New Jersey, Blitz worked to overcome his debilitating stutter by joining the speech and debate teams. He went on to win the New Jersey state championship in policy debate as well as multiple public speaking events. He has since become an outspoken advocate within the stuttering community. Blitz attended Johns Hopkins as an undergrad and graduate student where he studied writing with John Barth and J. M. Coetzee. He was awarded the Louis Sudler Prize for the Arts there and went on to attended USC for graduate film school.