Leila Gerstein

Leila Gerstein is an American television producer and screenwriter.

Gerstein has written for television shows, including Gossip Girl, The O.C. and Life As We Know It, and written and produced episodes of Eli Stone. She created the 2011 comedy-drama series Hart of Dixie. Gerstein won a 2017 Emmy as a consulting producer on The Handmaid's Tale. Gerstein was raised on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where she attended Hunter College High School. After college, she attended theatre school while working as a SAT tutor and writing in her spare time. After getting several plays produced, she moved to Los Angeles. A personal essay that she read aloud at an Upright Citizens Brigade performance about her love affair with New York Mets third baseman Robin Ventura brought her notice from the Oxygen channel who hired her to write a pilot based on the story as well as two TV movies including Tempting Adam. She wrote scripts for Life As We Know It and The O.C., and then produced Eli Stone and Gossip Girl. Gerstein won a 2017 Emmy as a consulting producer on The Handmaid's Tale.