The Dropout

Liz is the creator and showrunner of the limited series THE DROPOUT (Hulu) starring Amanda Seyfried and Naveen Andrews.  She began her career as a playwright in New York, with Off-Off Broadway productions of her plays THE MISTAKES MADELINE MADE (Naked Angels, Yale Rep), HEDDATRON (directed by Alex Timbers, HERE Arts Center), OLIVER PARKER (directed by Evan Cabnet, Cherry Lane Theater).  Liz wrote the feature film comedy NO STRINGS ATTACHED for Paramount Pictures (directed by Ivan Reitman, starring Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher) about two friends who decide to have sex without falling in love.  It was just barely Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, which felt like a huge win.  In 2011, Liz wrote the pilot for a TV show about a young woman who moves into an apartment with three guys, and this became the Fox series NEW GIRL starring Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield, Hannah Simone, and Lamorne Morris, directed by Jake Kasdan.  Liz was the Executive Producer/Showrunner for all seven seasons of the series, directing two episodes, and getting a crash course in television production along the way.  NEW GIRL was nominated for Golden Globes, WGA awards, and Emmys but only won once– an Environmental Image Award for an episode “Menus,” about a Chinese restaurant that passed out too many takeout menus.  Liz then co-created the ABC comedies BLESS THIS MESS with Lake Bell and SINGLE PARENTS with JJ Philbin, which each ran for two seasons before being brutally cancelled on the same day.  During the 2016 presidential elections, she attended the Republican and Democratic conventions as a writer for New York Magazine, and her published essays include a story of how Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama stayed up all night creating Al Qaeda together.  Her next project is a half-hour limited series on FX based on the podcast DYING FOR SEX, co-created with Kim Rosenstock, to be directed in 2023 by Leslye Headland.  Liz was born in Miami, Florida, but moved to Michigan at age five and did most of her growing up in Ann Arbor.  She graduated from Yale University in 2004, and was a Lila Acheson Wallace playwriting fellow at Juilliard.  She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.