Education
Singer attended Upper Dublin High School in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, where he appeared in musicals and was a member of math club, drama club, video club, and chorus.
Singer attended Upper Dublin High School in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, where he appeared in musicals and was a member of math club, drama club, video club, and chorus.
In 2006, he was nominated for a WGA award. In high school, he was elected class treasurer, wrote for the school newspaper, and played for the school"s baseball team In his senior year, he was named class valedictorian, a Presidential Scholar and a National Merit Scholar.
Singer graduated magna cum laude from Yale University, with distinction in mathematics and economics.
At Yale, he was a member and business manager of both The Whiffenpoofs and The Yale Alley Cats. Three to four months prior to going to graduate school, he worked for Children"s Television Workshop (the name, at that time, of the production company for the television show "Sesame Street",) and then began doing internships.
He did an internship for Nickelodeon in New York and an internship for Disney Channel out in Los Angeles, working for Roy Price at Disney television Animation for four or five weeks. As a result, he developed an interest in script writing.
He worked as a business analyst for McKinsey & Company before obtaining a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School and an Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
After Singer graduated from Harvard, he was hired by showrunner John Wells to write for The West Wing. In 2012, Singer wrote the screenplay for The Fifth Estate.