Jeff Richmond

Jeffrey Wayne Richmond grew up in Portage County, Ohio, and graduated in 1979 from James A. Garfield High School in Garrettsville, where he won the John Philip Sousa award and where his mother still lives. He also played a key part in the creation of the Garrettsville Community Players, directing, choreographing, and lending his creative and artistic vision to many of its shows in its beginning. He attended Kent State University in Kent, Ohio in the early 1980s, where he co-authored a number of musicals including his acclaimed Lobo-A-Go-Go, and wrote a musical score to William Shakespeare's Othello.

Richmond worked at The Second City and Child's Play Touring Theatre before he became music director for the late-night television variety show Saturday Night Live. Richmond left SNL in 2006 to produce and compose music for the situation comedy 30 Rock. Richmond has also appeared as an extra on various occasions on 30 Rock, as the character Alfonso Disparioso; and, beginning in 2010, he directed five episodes: "Argus", "Plan B", "The Ballad of Kenneth Parcell", "Today You Are a Man", and "A Goon's Deed in a Weary World". In 2008, he composed the score to the film Baby Mama, which starred Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. Richmond has also appeared in a recurring role on Late Night with Conan O'Brien as the short character "Russian Hat Guy". He wrote music for the Broadway stage adaptation of Mean Girls, which had its out-of-town Broadway tryout in Washington, DC. The musical began previews on Broadway March 12, 2018, and opened officially on Broadway on April 8, 2018. Mean Girls premiered on London's West End in June 2024.

Richmond is married to Tina Fey. They met while working at The Second City and dated for seven years before marrying on June 3, 2001. They have two daughters.