Elizabeth Coleman

Writer

Elizabeth is a screenwriter, playwright, and novelist.

Elizabeth first came to attention with her wonderfully dark comedy, It’s My Party (And I’ll Die If I Want To) which premiered at the 1993 Melbourne Comedy Festival.  Its success was eclipsed with the arrival of Secret Bridesmaids’ Business in 1999 which broke box office records in Melbourne before embarking on a national tour in 2000 and in 2010 was revived for a new production in Melbourne. It was later adapted into a telemovie produced by Linda House for ABC Television and was adapted again last year into a 6 part series for Channel 7 under the same name. The Seven Studios production is currently being developed for NBC in the States as Ties That Bind, by Deidre Shaw of Jane the Virgin, Keshet Studios and Universal Television. Her comedy about love gone wrong, This Way Up premiered in 2001 at Playbox Theatre in Melbourne. Her play Almost With You premiered at La Mama in 2012 and is published by Currency Press.

Elizabeth has written several episodes of television, including The Flying Doctors, G.P., SeaChange, Police Rescue, Heartbreak High, Something in the Air, The Secret Life of Us, Blue Heelers, All Saints, McLeod’s Daughters and Whatever Happened to That Guy.

She co-created and co-wrote all three seasons of the drama series Bed of Roses, for Southern Star and ABC Television, which was nominated for Best Telefeature at the AFI Awards 2008.

More recently Elizabeth has written for series 2 of Miss Fisher’s Modern Mysteries (Nine), the reboot of the TV series Seachange (Nine) Wanted (Seven), Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (ABC), Mr & Mrs Murder (Ten) Reef Doctors (Nine) and Newton’s Law (ABC). She is currently writing for a series in development with Bunya and Netflix.

Elizabeth's debut novel Losing The Plot was published by Allen & Unwin in 2019. Her second novel, A Routine Infidelity was published by Pantera in 2023 and the sequel A Dance with Murder was published in 2024.

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