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Paul Bevan Lieberstein (born February 22, 1967) is an American actor, screenwriter, television director and television producer. A Primetime Emmy Award winner, he is best known as a writer, executive producer, and supporting cast member on the NBC sitcom The Office, playing the role of Toby Flenderson. He served as the series' showrunner from seasons five to eight.
Lieberstein was also a producer on the third and final season of the television drama series The Newsroom. In November 2017, it was announced that he would replace Kevin Etten as showrunner of Ghosted. In 2018, Lieberstein wrote and directed his first feature film, Song of Back and Neck, which made it into Tribeca Film Festival. On April 3, 2020, he announced plans for a sitcom about office life while isolated due to the COVID-19 pandemic; the project eventually became the television film Out of Office.
On March 22, 2012, it was announced that Lieberstein would step down from his showrunner role to focus on a planned spin-off series featuring Rainn Wilson as Dwight Schrute, tentatively called The Farm. Lieberstein was set to be the showrunner, but in October 2012, it was announced that NBC was not accepting the series.
In a SuicideGirls interview, Lieberstein said that "as an actor, which is just a very small percentage of me, I don't feel Toby while I'm writing. It's the hardest of the characters to access". 2006 interview with Paul Lieberstein by Daniel Robert Epstein, at the SuicideGirls website In an interview for his alma mater, Hamilton College, he commented on the bigger picture: Roll Credits , a profile of Lieberstein from the Hamilton College website
Lieberstein married Janine Serafin Poreba on July 19, 2008, at the New York City restaurant Battery Gardens.
He has served on the advisory board of directors for Young Storytellers, an arts education nonprofit organization based in Los Angeles.
Lieberstein's work on The Office has resulted in numerous awards. In June 2007, he shared in a Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Broadband Program – Comedy", for his work on The Office: Accountants webisodes. 34th Annual Creative Arts & Entertainment Emmy Awards , from the Emmy Awards website As an actor, Lieberstein shared in a 2006 Screen Actors Guild Award for "Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series"; as a writer, he shared a 2006 Writers Guild of America Award for the series, in addition to a WGA Award nomination for "The Coup". As co-executive producer, he shared a 2006 Emmy Award for "Outstanding Comedy Series".
Lieberstein received an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts degree from Hamilton College on May 22, 2011.
| 2005–2013 | The Office | Toby Flenderson | 141 episodes |
| 2008 | 2 episodes | ||
| 2009 | Episode "Pay Day" | ||
| Selleck Last Customer | |||
| 2014 | Bad Teacher | Evaluator | Episode "Evaluation Day" |
| The Newsroom | Richard Westbrook | 2 episodes | |
| 2016 | Togetherness | Greg | Episode "Geri-ina" |
| The Mindy Project | Cuddle Spot Man | Episode "Mindy Lahiri is DTF" | |
| 2017 | People of Earth | Assessor | 5 episodes |
| 2018 | Song of Back and Neck | Fred | Also director, writer, and producer |
| 2019 | The Big Break | Ted | Short film |
| Top Shelf Singles | Evan Caldwell | Post-production; short film |
| Episode "President Ferguson" |
| 3 episodes |
| 3 episodes |
| Produced 50 episodes, wrote 12 episodes |
| Produced 27 episodes, wrote 3 episodes |
| Produced 2 episodes, wrote "Greg Gets Puppish" |
| Produced 22 episodes, wrote 2 episodes |
| Episode "The Bicycle Thief" |
| Directed 7 episodes Produced 166 episodes Wrote 16 episodes |
| 10 episodes |
| 3 episodes |
| Directed "Oh Shenandoah", produced 6 episodes |
| Produced 6 episodes, wrote "The Wire" |
| Produced 4 episodes, wrote "It's Good to Be Back on the Moon" |
| Co-wrote three episodes; also co-developer |
| Directed "TTT vs the Blogger", wrote "The Ohio Journalism Awards" |
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