Elizabeth Diggs
Photo courtesy of playwright
Elizabeth Diggs’s plays include Grant & Twain, Nightingale, American Beef, Close Ties, Goodbye Freddy, How to Plant a Rose, Dumping Ground, Priceless and Custer’s Luck, published by Dramatists Play Service, Smith and Kraus and Doubleday. She wrote the libretto for the musical Mirette (based on the Caldecott award book by Emily Arnold McCully), with Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt. For TV, she wrote for the series St. Elsewhere. Her plays have been produced at many regional theatres including Capitol Rep, Goodspeed Opera House, SouthCoast Rep, Portland Stage, the Alley Theatre and many more. And in New York, at the Vineyard and Ensemble Studio Theatre, where she is a longtime member.
Liz was Professor of Dramatic Writing in the Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. She lives in Columbia County and New York City with her partner, Emily McCully.