COMEDY. UNDERDOGS. DELUSION WITH CONSEQUENCES.
Elizabeth McKenzie is an Australian author and screenwriter who writes comedy features, romantic comedies, buddy comedies, and stories about messy women chasing very specific dreams with wildly inconsistent judgment.
Her projects have placed in international screenwriting contests including:
ScreenCraft, Final Draft, and the Austin Film Festival. Her comedy feature I Did, I Do, I Don’t was optioned by producer Lisa Gooding, formerly of NBCUniversal.
Elizabeth’s work is voicey, female-led, emotionally chaotic, and usually about characters who want something so badly they take the least sensible route available.
Which is rude, but useful for plot.
SELECTED PROJECTS
I Did, I Do, I Don’t
FEATURE COMEDY
A workaholic is surprised with a dream vacation by her boyfriend, unaware that he’s booked them for the destination wedding of her ex-husband.
Inspired by Elizabeth’s real life. Yes, she did use her ex’s wedding as a honeymoon spot. This feature earned an option agreement with producer Lisa Gooding, formerly of NBCUniversal.
How to Manifest a Ticket to Mark Ronson in 7 Days
ROMANTIC COMEDY / BUDDY COMEDY
Two best friends do everything they can to get the last tickets to a Mark Ronson gig, only to realise they’ve been in love with each other this whole damn time.
A story about friendship, music, shady tactics, and the dangers of building an entire emotional life around one sold-out gig.
This script placed in the second round of the Austin Film Festival.
Merry Christmas from Pittsville
FEATURE COMEDY
A Christmas-obsessed Australian travels to America to live out her Christmas movie fantasy, only to end up as a reluctant babysitter in a bankrupt Wisconsin suburb desperately in need of the holiday spirit.
This script placed highly in screenwriting contests including ScreenCraft and Final Draft Big Break, and earned a shopping agreement with Action Films LA.
Time’s Up for Amy Hamilton
HALF-HOUR SINGLE-CAMERA COMEDY PILOT
A slacker office admin assistant finds herself the unwilling champion of a new movement to eradicate workplace inequality, stirring up company culture, surprising enemies, and complicated office romances.
Placed in the quarter-finals of the Final Draft Big Break contest.
About Elizabeth
Elizabeth McKenzie is an Australian author and screenwriter who writes female-led comedy, romantic comedy, buddy comedy, and stories about messy women chasing the wrong thing for the right reason.
Her debut romantic comedy, Bed Chemistry, was published by Alcove Press in the US and Transworld in the UK, and has also been translated into Brazilian Portuguese. Her feature scripts and pilots have placed in international screenwriting contests including ScreenCraft, Final Draft, and the Austin Film Festival, and her comedy feature I Did, I Do, I Don’t was optioned by producer Lisa Gooding, formerly of NBCUniversal.
Her work is full of romantic chaos, friendship, ambition, bad decisions, big feelings, and women trying very hard to be normal about the thing they absolutely cannot be normal about.
Which, unfortunately for them, is usually the plot.
She lives in Melbourne, Australia — home of the coffee snob — with her husband, their son, and their dog, who is the goodest girl.
Writing samples
Feature scripts, pilots, treatments, and selected writing samples are available on request.