Sarnoff, Liz (Elizabeth Sarnoff)

PERSONAL

Full name, Elizabeth A. Sarnoff; born in New York City. Education: New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, graduated.

Addresses:

Agent—United Talent Agency, 9560 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 500, Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Career:

Producer, story editor, and writer. Participant in the networking panel Women Helping Women, West Hollywood, CA, 2005.

Member:

Writers Guild of America, West.

Awards, Honors:

Emmy Award nomination, outstanding drama series, 2005, and Writers Guild of America Award (TV) nomination, dramatic series, 2006, both with others, both for Deadwood; Writers Guild of America Award (TV), dramatic series, 2006, Writers Guild of America Award (TV) nomination, dramatic series, 2007, and nomination for Television Producer of the Year Award in Episodic, Producers Guild of America, 2007, all with others, all for Lost; Writers Guild of America (TV) nomination (with Christina M. Kim), episodic drama, 2007, for "Two for the Road," an episode of Lost.

CREDITS

Television Work; Series:

Story editor, Big Apple, CBS, 2001.

Executive story editor, Deadwood, HBO, 2004.

Producer, Deadwood, HBO, 2004-2005.

Producer, Lost, ABC, 2005-2006.

Supervising producer, Lost, ABC, 2006—.

Television Work; Specials:

Supervising producer, Lost: Missing Pieces, ABC, 2007.

Television Work; Episodic:

(As Elizabeth Sarnoff) Story editor, "Crime & Punishment," Crossing Jordan (also known as Untitled Tim Kring Project), NBC, 2002.

(As Elizabeth Sarnoff) Executive story editor, "Conspiracy," Crossing Jordan (also known as Untitled Tim Kring Project), NBC, 2003.

(As Elizabeth Sarnoff) Executive story editor, "Pandora's Trunk: Parts 1 & 2," Crossing Jordan (also known as Untitled Tim Kring Project), NBC, 2003.

Film Work:

Production secretary, One Fine Day, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1996.

(As Elizabeth Sarnoff) Assistant to Diana Pokorny, A Thousand Acres, Buena Vista, 1997.

Assistant to Mary McLaglen, Hope Floats, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1998.

RECORDINGS

Videos:

(As Elizabeth Sarnoff) Audio commentator for the Lost episode "The Whole Truth," Lost—The Complete Second Season, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2006.

WRITINGS

Teleplays; Specials:

Lost: Missing Pieces, ABC, 2007.

Teleplays; as Elizabeth Sarnoff; Episodic:

(And story) "Hit the Road, Clark," NYPD Blue, ABC, 2001.

"Acts of Mercy," Crossing Jordan (also known as Untitled Tim Kring Project), NBC, 2002.

"Scared Straight," Crossing Jordan (also known as Untitled Tim Kring Project), NBC, 2002.

"Secrets & Lies: Part 1," Crossing Jordan (also known as Untitled Tim Kring Project), NBC, 2002.

"Cruel & Unusual," Crossing Jordan (also known as Untitled Tim Kring Project), NBC, 2003.

"Here Was a Man," Deadwood, HBO, 2004.

"Suffer the Little Children," Deadwood, HBO, 2004.

"Amalgamation and Capital," Deadwood, HBO, 2005.

"New Money," Deadwood, HBO, 2005.

Lost, ABC, episodes beginning 2005.

Some sources cite that Sarnoff wrote episodes of Big Apple, CBS, 2001.

Screenplays:

(As Elizabeth Sarnoff; with others) Chasing Papi (also known as Papi chulo), Twentieth Century-Fox, 2003.

Author of other screenplays. Some sources cite work on the screenplay Auntie Claus (based on the book by Elise Primavera).

Writings for the Stage:

Wrote Chemo Lounge and Slow Dance in Midtown.