BIOGRAPHY

Lizzie’s television production career started at BBC Television in London where she was involved in a wide range of programming including live studio current affairs shows, children’s programs, a weekly magazine program on the arts, and numerous documentary films shot worldwide including Jordan, Syria, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Britain, and the United States.

Following her move to San Francisco in 1987, Lizzie has continued her involvement with television production at the same time as pursuing studies in psychology. She holds a BA in psychology and an MA in Organizational Psychology. In addition, she is also certified as a Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner and a Neuro-Linguistic Programming Personal and Professional Coach.

In addition to researching, developing and producing major documentaries, Lizzie has, most recently, also been involved in the wider field of communication. She has written content for an interactive website to train business executives in intercultural communication, facilitated a strategic planning conference in Mexico, consulted to a major San Francisco high school on internal and external communication strategies, and produced a weekly live radio show on organizational change for the North America Broadcasting Company.

CREDITS

Major BBC credits:

• Reputations: Robert Kennedy, a biography of the former US Attorney General, assassinated in 1968
  
  
• Horizon/Nova series (science specials on the first artificial heart, and on cell membranes)
  
  
• Arena: a weekly arts documentaries series: documentaries on Joe Orton, Edward Hopper, Frank Lloyd Wright, the Mona Lisa
  
  
• The Night of the Long Knives: the dramatic retelling of this momentous night in pre World War II Nazi Germany
  
  
• Footsteps: Jean Louis Burkhart, retracing the archaeologist-explorer Burkhardt’s travels through Syria to Jordan and his discovery of the "rose-red city of Petra"
  
  
• Zeffirelli’s Otello, a behind the scenes look at the making of Italian director Franco Zefirelli’s film of the opera "Otello"
  
  
• The Story of English (with Robin McNeil), 13 one hour programs on the history of the development of the English language
  
  
• Designs on Britain, a 90 minute special examining the cutting edge in design
  
  
• Reputations: Leon Trotsky, biography of the Russian political figure
  

Major InCA Productions credits

• ReCreating America: a national PBS series on creativity, launched in Oklahoma City, February 2008
  
  
• Clean Fish: The Loch Duart and Guaymas Stories, The first two of several short films, featuring artisan fishermen around the world
  
  
• Unforgivable?: a pilot for a new series on Forgiveness, featuring H.E. The Dalai Lama and actor Richard Gere
  
  
• Surviving September 11: the poignant story of how two families learn to cope with trauma
  
  
• The Promise of Play, 3 one hour programs on the psychology of play
  
  
• The Universe Story, a 2-hour special on the history of the last 14 billion years.