Justin Spitzer is an American television and film writer, producer, and showrunner. He is best known for creating the sitcoms Superstore and American Auto.^[1][2] His other credits include Scrubs, Courting Alex, and The Office.^[3]

Spitzer was an assistant on the sitcom Grounded for Life and on fourteen episodes of the American adaptation of Queer as Folk.^[4][5] From 2008 to 2013, he was a writer and producer for the American adaptation of The Office.^[6][1] In 2013 he wrote a pilot based on The Money Pit that was put into development by NBC but ultimately never aired.^[7][8]

He created the workplace sitcom Superstore, starring America Ferrera and Ben Feldman, which had a midseason premiere on NBC in 2015.^[9] He served as showrunner for three seasons before stepping down in 2019 while signing a multi-year deal with NBC and Universal Television.^[10] The series continued to run for three more seasons after Spitzer's departure.^[11]

In 2020, NBC ordered a pilot for Spitzer's comedy American Auto.^[12] The series premiered in 2021 and ran for two seasons before being canceled in 2023.^[13] In August 2021, Spitzer had signed a new four-year overall deal with Universal Television.^[14]

On November 24, 2007, he married producer and writer Jenna Bans. They have two children named Lucy and Phoebe.^[15]

• Justin Spitzer at IMDb
• Justin Spitzer on Twitter