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, Lizzie continued her involvement with television at InCA Productions. She focuses on the research, development and production of major PBS documentaries and series relating to psychology and human development (The Heart of Healing, The Promise of Play, Surviving September 11, Recreating America: Creativity and Learning, Reinventing Yourself).

At the same time, Lizzie has pursued her studies in psychology. She holds a BA in Psychology, an MA in Organizational Psychology and an MS in Counseling Psychology. She holds a certification from UCLA as a College Counselor. In addition, she is certified as a Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner and a Neuro-Linguistic Programming Personal and Professional Coach.

Lizzie has 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: Creativity and Learning – a 1 hour special on new ideas in education
  
  
• Reinventing Yourself – a 1 hour special on people who find a new focus in their middle years
  
  
• Clean Fish: The Loch Duart and Guaymas Stories, two short films, featuring artisan fishermen
  
  
• Unforgivable?: pilot sequences for a film on Forgiveness, featuring H.E. The Dalai Lama and Richard Gere
  
  
• Surviving September 11: the poignant story two families learning to cope with trauma in New York
  
  
• The Promise of Play, 3 one hour programs on the psychology of play
  
  
• The Journey of the Universe, a 1-hour special on the history of the last 14 billion years.