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 LEISURE WORLD, 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.

Her stage plays have been produced or developed at Arena Stage, Center Stage, E.M.P. Collective, Fearless New Play Festival, Great Plains Theatre Conference, KCACTF, The Kennedy Center, Old Sound Room, Sewanee Writers’ Conference (Tennessee Williams Scholarship), Taffety Punk, Theater Alliance, Theater J, and Williamstown Theatre Festival, among many others. Her most recent play, BOYS AND MEN AND MEN AND BOYS was a Princess Grace Fellowship finalist and is a current semifinalist for the O’Neill NPC and the Ojai Playwrights Conference. 

She has been a finalist for SPACE on Ryder Farm, the Playwrights’ Center Core Apprentice Program, and the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference; a WP Playwrights Lab semifinalist; and a five-time recipient of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Fellowship.

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