ELIZABETH PUCCINI

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Elizabeth Puccini studied literature and art history at Vassar College. Her first play, “Four Corners of Suburbia,” was produced by Double Helix Theatre Company at The 30th Street Theatre (New York City, 2000) and went on to win First Runner-up at Stages Repertory Theatre’s 2001 Southwest Festival of New Plays. Its enthusiastic reception encouraged Elizabeth to adapt the play for the screen and direct her first feature film. Her experience in theatre and film include working as a producer on a radio production of Wallace Shawn’s play “The Designated Mourner” directed by André Gregory and as a researcher for director Mike Newell on Revolution Studio’s “Mona Lisa Smile” starring Julia Roberts.

“Four Corners of Suburbia” received its world premiere at the prestigious AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival. It has screened at several international film festivals including The Avignon Film Festival, where it won “Best Music,” and the Crossroads Film Festival, where it won “Best Narrative Feature.”

Elizabeth has written three screenplays: “The Black Monk,” a metaphysical thriller set in Spain, “Trinity” a portrait of a woman suffering from borderline personality disorder, and “The Linden Tree,” a WWII coming-of-age story about a woman who ultimately finds a way to transcend the brutality of her times, based on the diaries of the Dutch Jew Etty Hillesum.