Liz Maestri

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Liz Maestri

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Liz Maestri is a Brooklyn-based screenwriter and playwright who writes horror features, TV dramas, and weird plays about fierce underdogs clawing themselves out of repressive situations.


Liz's latest feature P.R.O.M. (Black List Recommended), was a finalist for The Black List Feature Lab. Her TV projects include one-hour pilots COLLEGIATE (Stowe Story Labs/Maven Screen Media Fellowship finalist) and SIGNS + WONDERS (ScreenCraft Fellowship semifinalist). Produced short films include NIGHT WAKING (dir  Shoshana Rosenbaum) which has screened at festivals around the world,  most recently at the SOHO International Film Festival; THE LAUGHING CLUB (dir Jason Lobe); and webisode "Together Alone" (dir Ryan Rilette) for the original series HOMEBOUND.


Liz's stage plays include BOYS AND MEN AND MEN AND BOYS (O’Neill NPC finalist; Princess Grace Award semifinalist), THE ICE ROOM (Fearless New Play Festival), CONDO CONDO CONDOLAND (Old Sound Room), and HOUSE BEAUTIFUL (Sewanee Writers’ Conference/Tennessee Williams Scholarship) among many  others. She has been nominated for the Kilroys List and the L. Arnold  Weissberger Award, and was a WP Playwrights Lab semifinalist, a SPACE on  Ryder Farm finalist, and a five-time recipient of the DC Commission on  the Arts and Humanities Fellowship. Most recently, Liz was a  CLUSTERF**CK resident at COOP Theatre and Film NYC.


Liz is an  alum of the Playwrights' Arena (American Voices New Play Institute) at  Arena Stage, the Playwrights Collective at Center Stage, and the 24 With  5 Collective at New Dramatists. She earned an M.F.A., Playwriting in  2018.

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