About

Occupation: Storyteller

Preoccupation: Film

Past Lives: Music; Technology; Government; Publishing

Nationality: TCK

Ideology: Secular Humanism

Flaws: Perfectionism; Inability to read a map

Attributes: Optimism; No qualms about asking for directions

Likes: A brilliant comedy sketch; A novel that mines the dictionary

Dislikes: Classrooms

Lifelong Pursuit: Learning

Deserted Island Companions: Jane Fonda and Jack Black

Icons: Vonnegut, Vidal, Steinem, Lispector

Committed to Resolving: The whole Jets/Sharks conundrum

Maxim: Submit to the advice of optimists, except on matters of sex and money.

Obligatory Third-Person Bio

Born in the Midwest, Elizabeth grew up in Dublin, Ireland, London, England, and graduated high school in Winnetka, IL. She attended the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, interned at the United Nations Development Programme, was a Government Publications Editor for various international organisations including ASEAN and the Gaimusho, performed Shakespeare professionally in Tokyo, published a review in the Japan Times, traveled through Asia, and repatriated to Los Angeles via London.

Her apprenticeship in Hollywood began at management company Hofflund/Polone which led to Director’s Assistant jobs on features such as THE OUT-OF-TOWNERS remake starring Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn, then Jerry Zucker’s RAT RACE starring John Cleese, Whoopi Goldberg, Rowan Atkinson, Jon Lovitz, Seth Green, et al, and subsequent screenwriting work on several studio projects. She left the film industry in 2001 to work on her second novel, THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN HISTORY, a political satire about a disastrous 2016 presidential election.

In 2004, she landed at the intersection of technology and music, forming part of the Music Discovery team that launched with Apple’s iTunes Music Store under the leadership of Gary Stewart, Chief Music Officer. She remained at Apple for five years as a Web Producer, bringing new bands to the attention of her colleagues and overseeing strategic partnerships with tech and gaming giants such as Google and Activision. An erstwhile gamer, producing the Guitar Hero co-promotions was a high point of her time there. In 2009, she returned to comedy to write and direct a spec TV pilot starring Flula Borg, the German techno-rapper. The following year she sold a feature romantic comedy pitch, WHY WE MET, to producer William Tyrer (co-founder of Newmarket Films), and completed the script in 2011.

Throughout her career she has written on books, film, music, culture and politics for various publications and outlets, including the Washington Post, Slate, the iTunes Music Store, The Vinyl District and the Los Angeles Review of Books, where she was the founding Deputy Editor of the magazine in 2012. Additionally, her satirical book review “The Feline Mystique” was reprinted in the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library Anthology. Most recently, her romantic comedy DOGS AND THEIR PEOPLE was developed with Tapestry Films (WEDDING CRASHERS, POINT BREAK), and her sci-fi adventure feature EMOTIONAL GRAVITY is currently in rotation.