Liz Appel is a playwright originally from Toronto. Her play BELLS LIKE HOOVES was featured in the 2022 Roundabout Underground Reading Series, and she is a 2022 Ucross Fellow, VCCA Fellow and Tofte Lake Resident. A current member of New Georges The Jam, she has been a Finalist for the Princess Grace Award, the Leah Ryan FEWW Emerging Playwright Prize (twice), 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, is published in Blackbird. MFA in Playwriting from Hunter College (Dec, '21), where she was awarded a Roberts Foundation Fellowship. Current member of the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. She interviews writers and directors for Vogue.com.

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