Elizabeth Searle is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright and screenwriter.
18 Facts About Elizabeth Searle
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Elizabeth Searle is the author of five books of fiction and a rock opera, and she is co-writer of "I'll Show You Mine," a feature film from Duplass Brothers Productions and that was released by Gravitas Ventures in 2023 in select theaters in NYC, LA and more and widely via VOD on AmazonPrime, AppleTV, Comcast OnDemand, Vudu and more.
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The film which Elizabeth co-wrote with David Shields and Tiffany Louquet, is directed by Megan Griffiths and stars Poorna Jagannathan and Casey Thomas Brown.
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Elizabeth Searle's short story collection My Body to You won the Iowa Short Fiction Prize and Celebrities in Disgracewas a finalist for the Paterson Fiction Prize.
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Elizabeth Searle's one act play, 'Stolen Girl Song' was produced at the Act One One Act Play festival in NY in 2019.
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Elizabeth Searle's father Bill was a Democratic Party activist and worked at GE and other companies; Barbara, her mother, was a public school teacher and children's librarian.
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Elizabeth Searle has a younger sister, Kate, who works at MIT and Bill, her older brother, is a videographer.
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Elizabeth Searle's family moved during her childhood from PA to SC to KY to AZ.
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Elizabeth Searle was a special education teacher and taught students with autism in schools located in New Haven, Connecticut and Providence, Rhode Island.
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Elizabeth Searle's essays have appeared in over a dozen anthologies.
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Elizabeth Searle has co-edited an anthology on Soap Operas from McFarland Books and co-edited an anthology with McFarland in 2018 on Teen Idols called IDOL TALK.
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Elizabeth Searle co-wrote with Tiffany Louquet and David Shields the feature film 'I'll Show You Mine' which is directed by Megan Giffiths and stars Poorna Jagannathan and Casey Thomas Brown and is a Duplass Brothers Production released by Gravitas Ventures in 2023 in select theaters and on home screens via VOD.
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Elizabeth Searle is completing a book of short stories and has film and theater scripts in the works.
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Elizabeth Searle has taught creative writing at Brown University, Emerson College, the University of Southern Maine's Program in Creative Writing, the University of Massachusetts Boston and other institutions.
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Elizabeth Searle has taught at Stonecoast MFA since the program began in 2002.
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Elizabeth Searle was a longtime member, Board officer and committee chairperson of the New England chapter of International PEN.
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Elizabeth Searle is a member of Women in Film and Video.
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Elizabeth Searle is married to software engineer John Hodgkinson; they have a son, Will and reside in Arlington, Massachusetts.