ABOUT

Elizabeth Williams is passionately CREATIVE.

Be it a story or an art work, she has an insatiable desire to create something NEW, innovative and inspiring.

Elizabeth’s favorite art form is FILM. Recognizing that the heart and lifeblood of every great film is a captivating STORY, she has focused on SCREENWRITING. For the past twenty years, while also working as a lecturer, teacher and director’s assistant, Elizabeth has been writing scripts.

Elizabeth is currently developing a feature musical animation, Aria, a television series, M.I.A., and a feature comedy Disorderly Conduct.

Elizabeth Williams' dramatic entry into the world was captured on 8mm film for 'educational purposes.' Though not impressed as a sex-ed student at school, Elizabeth now treasures the fact that film was a significant part of her life from day one. Her audacious mother, Evelyn Joy Hogan, was a marriage guidance counsellor and passionate humanitarian who fought for the rights of refugees, aboriginals and other marginalized groups. When Elizabeth was thirteen, her inspiring mother died after a ten year battle with cancer.

The other 23 of Elizabeth's chromosomes were generously donated by Professor John Williams, an eccentric scientist and lay preacher. Joy and John Williams raised Elizabeth, along with her elder brother and sister, in a close-knit community by the river in North Queensland, Australia.

Elizabeth's childhood was defined by drama and creativity; she loved to make tree houses, perform to anyone who would watch and make up stories (mainly to get out of doing chores). She wrote her first adventure novel (or 'very long ramble') in her early teens and her first feature screenplay in high school (a brutally transparent autobiography Searching, which will forever remain unfit for public viewing).

After receiving a Scholarship, Elizabeth set off for a year in Canada, then returned to complete a BA in Communication (Film and TV) from the University of Technology, Sydney and a Diploma of Ministry (Film and TV) from Hillsong Leadership College in Sydney, Australia. It was at her church that she learnt the ropes of multi-camera filmmaking — everything from being a cable-puller to camera operator and eventually director of a TV show aired on Channel Nine (one of three main free-to-air commercial networks in Australia).

Eager to be involved in narrative film, Elizabeth secured a Director-in-Training position with Howard Rubie on the television series Escape of the Artful Dodger, a sequel to Oliver Twist. Willing to help in any way, she ended up working in every department from making children's fingers look dirty in make-up, to holding the boom microphone, script distribution and working closely with the director.

Fascinated by the casting process, Elizabeth sought a job at Australia's leading casting consultancy - Mullinars Casting where she was the Casting Director for a Ford commercial and Casting Assistant for the television series -  Snobs and Young Lions. 

Seeking a mentor in film, Elizabeth tracked down one of Australia's best Writer-Directors - Academy Award nominated filmmaker, Chris Noonan. She became his assistant for many years and had the opportunity to work as a reader, script analyst and eventually co-writer. Chris and Elizabeth made a dynamic writing team and spent over a year co-writing a feature film together, which is currently in development.

Elizabeth relocated to Los Angeles to continue to write screenplays. Under the tutelage of Meg LeFauve, Elizabeth has continued to develop her screenwriting skills and work towards bringing her scripts to life on the “big screen”.

"...Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do." (Rob Siltanen, working for Steve Jobbs, 1997 )