Liz Ellison Baron is a playwright and storyteller in Ottawa, Ontario. She has written and performed with Ottawa StoryTellers and the Chicago Neo-Futurists, and her scripts have been developed and produced in Chicago, New York, Minneapolis, Omaha, and elsewhere. She has been a core apprentice at the Playwrights’ Center, a semifinalist for the Princess Grace Award, and a three-time O’Neill National Playwrights Conference semifinalist. Her work appears in the Vintage Books anthology SHORTER, FASTER, FUNNIER. Liz holds a B.A. in theater and English from Dartmouth College and an M.F.A. in dramatic writing from Carnegie Mellon University, where she was a recipient of the Steven Bochco Fellowship.