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NATE BLOOM SPECIAL TO THE JEWISH NEWS

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Jeremy Konner

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Billy Eichner

Liev Schreiber

Carrie Brownstein

Evan Rachel Wood

he 69th Primetime Emmy
Awards will be broadcast
live on CBS 8 p.m. Sunday,
Sept. 17, hosted by Stephen
Colbert. The Creative Arts
Emmys are awarded on Sept. 16
(FXX cable, 8 p.m.). The Creative
Emmy categories include guest
actor on a series, documentaries,
reality and animated shows, and
all the technical awards. Look for
a few Jewish Creative Arts nomi-
nees near the end of this column
— here are the confirmed Jewish
Primetime Emmy nominees.

ACTING CATEGORIES: Lead
Actor, Comedy Series: Jeffrey
Tambor, 73, Transparent; Lead
Actress, Comedy Series: Pamela
Adlon, 51, Better Things and
Tracee Ellis Ross, 44, Black-ish
(Ross’ father is Jewish; her moth-
er is singer Diana Ross); note:
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, a nominee
in this category, had one Jewish
grandparent (paternal grandpa)
and she’s said repeatedly, “I’m
not Jewish”; Lead Actor, Drama
Series: Liev Schreiber, 49, Ray
Donovan; Lead Actress, Drama
Series: Evan Rachel Wood, 29,
Westworld; Supporting Actor,
Drama: Mandy Patinkin, 64,
Homeland; Supporting Actress,
Comedy Series: Vanessa Bayer,
35, Saturday Night Live and
Judith Light, 68, Transparent;
Supporting Actress, Limited
Series/Movie: Jackie Hoffman,
56, Feud: Bette and Joan.

DIRECTING AND WRITING
AWARDS: First, the directors:

Director, Comedy Series: David
Mandel, 47, Veep. Mandel has
written for many series, includ-
ing 10 Seinfeld episodes, among
them the famous “Bizarro Jerry”
episode, which he says is his
favorite; Director, Limited Series,
or Movie or Special: Glenn
Weiss, 55, the Oscars ceremony;
Director, Variety Series: Jeremy
Konner, 37, Drunk History.
Konner is also the co-creator
of this series; Writing, Comedy
Series: David Mandel, Veep;
Writing, Drama Series: Joe
Weisberg, 56, The Americans.
A former CIA officer, Weisberg
created The Americans, a series
about two KGB agents posing as
Americans in the 1980s. Writing,
Limited Series: Jaffe Cohen,
60ish, co-writer, Feud: Bette and
Joan and Richard Price, 67, co-
writer, The Night Of.

FIVE SERIES are nominated
for outstanding writing, vari-
ety series (Full Frontal with
Samantha Bee, Last Week Tonight
with John Oliver, Late Night with
Seth Meyers, Saturday Night Live
and Late Night with Stephen
Colbert). The writing staffs for
these series are all pretty big, but
noted here are the confirmed
Jewish head writers: Jo Miller,
51, Samantha Bee. Miller has a
B.A. from Yale in medieval Jewish