PLAYS
As a playwright, Lizz's work has been seen across the country in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Maine, Vermont, Colorado, Florida, Kentucky, and Minneapolis.
FULL LENGTHS
AND THE LIGHTS OF THE BOREALIS WERE SHINING
1F/Femme-Presenting, 5NB (doubling possible, 4 actors min, 6 max)
The agreement was simple: Bee would live with Al, a talking polar bear, for a year. In exchange, her family would be blessed with incredible wealth. All this comes with a contract, however, and when Bee unknowingly breaks the terms, she is left alone and determined. With the help of strangers and a bit of magic, Bee embarks on a journey to rediscover the person she thought she knew, and maybe even discover what her own worth is. An adaptation of East of the Sun, West of the Moon.
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Production: Gadfly Theater, 2017
Residency: Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, 2018
Production: The Tank, 2023
STRIKE/OUT
4 F, 1 Femme-Presenting
Tuesdays are, for the Strike Sisters, a day for bowling, beer, and bickering. When tragedy strikes for a fellow team member, the remaining players are faced with the harsh realization that the place they go to for escaping their outside world problems may be becoming a problem in and of itself.
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Staged Reading: Historically Close Friends, 2023
Staged Reading: Kitchen Sink Theater Company, 2024
Staged Reading: The Bechdel Project, 2025
ICARUS AND AMELIA EARHART HAD TEA THIS MORNING
2F, 3M (doubling possible, 4 actors min, 5 max)
Amelia Earhart and Icarus meet on an island in the Bermuda Triangle and begin to plan a way off.
Long-time friends Amy and Isaac are working towards their own desires, but second-guess their success.
As both groups try to support their counterpart, they find that their own inner conflicts may be getting in the way. An exploration of self-sabotage and what lengths we go to in order to escape our problems.
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Staged Reading: The Tank, 2019
Production: Eleven & One Theatre Collective, 2020
Production: William Smith and Hobart Colleges, 2024
Reading: University of Louisville, 2025
SWIVES
4F, 2M
In the distant past of 2007, a group of women took to the internet to declare their undying devotion to Severus Snape (yes, THAT Severus Snape). "swives" is an imagining of what could have happened if these women had met IRL, and just how far they would have gone to prove their devotion to their religion.
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Staged Reading: First Kiss Theatre, 2024
SHORTS
OKAY.
2 F/NB Actors
Alex is sick and Sam is tired. At the end of what feels like everything, the failing couple tries to remember what made them think their life together could be okay.
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Production: Manhattan Repertory Theatre, 2018
Production: Irvington Theater 10-Minute Plays Festival
Filmed for Irvington Theater 10-Minute Plays Festival (Credit: Em Hausmann)
REAL SHIFT GONE WRONG!!! CAUGHT ON CAMERA!!! *NOT CLICKBAIT!!!* WATCH UNTIL THE END!!!
OR, SHIFT HAPPENS
2F
A girl from a Little town is visiting her sick grandmother in a Big city. While grandmother sleeps, the girl sneaks out and meets a woman who makes her feel new. Exciting. Red. Together, the women spend a night together that show them growing up and being grown is not what it always seems. An adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood
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Staged Reading: National Theater Institute, 2018
Staged Reading: Babycastles, 2020
Staged Reading: American Stage Theatre Company, 2023
EYES AND TEETH
2F/NB
It’s 2020 and things are weird and Sarah isn’t doing well with being cooped up inside but Lisa is doing yoga and drinking celery juice and she’s fine so why isn’t Sarah fine why isn’t Lisa reading Sarah’s emails Sarah has something to tell Lisa…
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Staged Reading: The Strangegirlzz, 2025
Production: Murmuration Theatre Company, 2026
PER MY LAST EMAIL
2F
Welcome to Gabby and Abby’s YouTube Channel! They are going to show you how to shift into another reality! This is real! Nothing bad is going to happen at all!
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Staged Reading: Cry HAVOC Company, 2025
MEDIA LANDSCAPE
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Staged Reading: Fresh Binder Productions, 2025
2 Any Gender
When Jake begins to turn into a puppet, and his horse puppet, Snow, begins to turn into a real horse, his friend William scrambles to find a cure. As Jake and Snow wait for rescue, they consider the burdens and liberations of having and not having a body with autonomy.
BY A STRING
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Staged Reading: AFTERLIFE Festival, 2026
2 Trans Masc/2 Any Gender
What song should I listen to? What movie should I watch? What piece of media is not going to remind me of you?
