Lizzy Weiss Biography

Fast Facts

• Won a Peabody Award and a Gracie Award for "Switched at Birth" in 2012
• Graduated from Duke University with a degree in Sociology and Women's Studies in 1992 and earned her Master's in Communication from New York University in 1993
• Her first paying writing job was in 1999 for the MTV original film "Holding Patterns," which was never aired
• Her first screenplay, "The Nineteenth," was about Susan B․ Anthony's struggle during the women's suffrage movement in America
• Quote: "I love characters who are imperfect․ In studio mainstream movies, the goal is always to have a protagonist the audience likes and identifies with, but we also like insecurities and flaws that we relate to․ Those are the people we know in real life․"
• Best known as the creator and producer of "Switched at Birth" and as the writer of "Blue Crush․"
• The story for "Blue Crush" came from an article in Outside magazine about a group of girls in Maui who grew up surfing