
Elizabeth is the author of five books of fiction and a rock opera, and co-writer of a 2022 feature film, I'LL SHOW YOU MINE, from Duplass Brothers Productions. She is creator/librettist of TONYA & NANCY: THE ROCK OPERA, a theater work that has been produced in Boston, LA, Chicago, NYC at NYMF & more, drawing major media. Her five books of fiction are: My Body To You (Iowa Short Fiction Prize), We Got Him (Midwest Book Award finalist), Celebrities in Disgrace, which the NYTimes called 'a miniature masterpiece,' Girl Held in Home and A Four-Sided Bed, a Boston Globe Paperback bestseller, a finalist for an ALA award, now in development for film. Short films Celebrities in Disgrace and FourSided have screened at festivals in Cannes, Boston and more; Elizabeth's screenplay of A Four-Sided Bed has won multiple awards. The most recent production of her rock opera starred Broadway's Andrea McArdle and won four Broadway World Regional Theater awards. Elizabeth's rock opera & new film have drawn widespread media. She is at work on new fiction & scripts.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~PRAISE FOR SEARLE: "Elizabeth Searle is an electric talent. Testing taboo limits, tuned to our Pop Culture pulsebeat, Searle creates spellbinding tales for our times..” ANN HOOD; “We started with a fantastic script” MEGAN GRIFFITHS, Director of I’ll Show You Mine; “Trademark Searle: quick with the life of the moment but also tuned to deeper implications” SVEN BIRKERTS; “Gracefully walks the knife’s edge between satire and ripped-from-the-headlines realism…Sexy, funny, creepy and highly enjoyable. " TOM PERROTTA