Liz Appel is a playwright originally from Toronto now based in New York. She is a New Georges Affiliate Artist and has been a Finalist for the Princess Grace Award, the Leah Ryan FEWW Emerging Playwright Prize, PlayPenn, BAPF, Ashland New Plays Festival and was a winner of the Henley Rose Playwright Competition for Women and an Honorable Mention for the Annual Parity Commission (Parity Productions). Her short play, SNOW, was produced at the Old Red Lion Theatre in London, and her play MOONSHINE, received a staged reading at the Cherry Lane Theater through Primary Stages, ESPA Drills. Her one-act play, REMEMBER, can be found in the Spring, 2017 issue of Blackbird. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Playwriting at Hunter College, where she was awarded a Roberts Foundation Fellowship.

She has developed work at the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive, Pataphysics Playwriting Workshops at the Flea Theater, and the Fishamble Theatre in Dublin. Liz holds a B.A. and MPhil from the University of Cambridge, an M.A. and MPhil in English from Yale University.