“WHEN ANI MET JO MET CRIS”
ELIZABETH DWYER
Romantic Comedy
A recurring meet-cute over the course of a decade, but make it gay! A fateful road trip sets two queer women on the path of Reluctant Travel Companions to Enthusiastic Lovers - until a charming new arrival lands them in uncharted waters.
Elizabeth Dwyer once stood two feet from Meryl Streep and has been gifted with uncanny storytelling powers ever since. As a queer woman and tenacious dramedy devotee, her writing reflects the world she lives in: a world that is decidedly more than straight, cis, and white. A world that is not comedy or drama, but happy and sad at the same time. Elizabeth tells love stories championing those once relegated to supporting cast, bringing their rich, full, complex lives and identities to center stage and screen.
Industry readers have described Elizabeth’s writing as “tonally sharp and atmospheric”,“hilariously awkward”, and her personal favorite, "Fifty Shades for thinking people." Elizabeth’s screenwriting accolades include Top 8 in Issa Rae & Paul Feig's Teen Movie Contest; Stowe Story Labs Launch Program, ISA Fast Track Fellowship, and WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Finalist; Table Read My Screenplay Top 10; and AFF Second Rounder. Adding Stowe Story Labs Launch Program Fellow to this list is a profound honor.
Within her creative community, Elizabeth engages in ongoing, evolving, essential dialogue around who gets to tell what kinds of stories and the importance of lifting up historically excluded voices. She considers her writing a superpower, and with great power comes great responsibility (#spiderman). You can also catch Elizabeth fulfilling her lifelong dream of playing a lawyer on TV in Season 4 Episode 4 of Better Call Saul, and flexing her oft-touted “voice for radio” skills with her debut audiobook narration, Billie Starr’s Book of Sorries (Macmillan, 2022).
