Elizabeth Coleman

Author

Elizabeth Coleman is a renowned Australian screenwriter, playwright and author. As a screenwriter Elizabeth’s written for more than thirty Australian dramas and comedies, including seminal hits The Secret Life of Us, SeaChange and the original Heartbreak High. She was also an integral part of the Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries team, writing many episodes of the beloved crime caper including the Christmas special, Murder Under the Mistletoe. With Jutta Goetze, Elizabeth co-created and co-wrote popular ABC drama Bed of Roses, which ran for 3 seasons and was nominated for an Australian Film Institute (AFI) award for Best Short-Run Series in 2008 and won the SPAA Drama Award in 2010.

Elizabeth’s smash hit plays Secret Bridesmaids’ Business and It’s My Party (And I’ll Die If I Want To) have been consistently produced over decades in countries as diverse as Japan, Estonia, the UK, the States and Norway. In 1999 F. Murray Abraham played the lead role in an off-Broadway production of It’s My Party (And I’ll Die If I Want To), directed by Jeannie Berlin and produced by Julian Schlossberg.

Elizabeth adapted Secret Bridesmaids’ Business into an ABC Australia telemovie that was a finalist in the International Competition for Television, Film and Video Communication at the New York Festival in 2002. She also co-developed the six-part romantic thriller inspired by Secret Bridesmaids’ Business that aired on Australia’s Channel 7 in 2019 and is currently in development for an American adaptation at NBC.

Elizabeth’s first novel, romcom Losing the Plot was published by Allen and Unwin in 2019. She followed it up with Books #1 and #2 in the Edwina ‘Ted’ Bristol Murder Mystery Series, A Routine Infidelity and A Dance with Murder, published by Pantera Press in 2023 and 2024. She’s recently completed a feature screenplay adaptation of Losing the Plot for US producers Cynthia Palormo and Susan Hoenig.

In the past year Elizabeth has also worked as a Story Consultant for SBS, CBS and Sweetshop & Green on four-part mini-series Sisters, and for Hoodlum and Paramount + on eight-part drama Two Years Later, airing in 2026. She has also co-developed a Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries theatre adaptation, Death by Deckchair, with Deb Cox and Fiona Eagger.

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