Liz Frankel spent the past nine years as the director of new work at Houston’s Alley Theatre, where she founded its Alley All New Festival in 2016. Since then, the Alley has been represented on Broadway by Sharr White’s Pictures from Home, off-Broadway by plays including Rajiv Joseph’s Describe the Night (Obie Award for Best New American Play), Bekah Brunstetter’s The Cake, and 72 miles to go... by Hilary Bettis as well as numerous productions around the country of other scripts it developed and premiered. Liz had the pleasure of working with Hilary Bettis on three plays at the Alley, including a workshop production of falcon girls in the 2023 Alley All New Festival. Liz moved to Houston after nine years at New York’s Public Theater, where she helped start the Emerging Writers Group; the program supported the writing of Appropriate by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Manahatta by Mary Kathryn Nagle and The Vagrant Trilogy by Mona Mansour, among many other wonderful new works. Before joining The Public, Liz worked at Waxman Williams Entertainment, Miramax Films, and Manhattan Theatre Club.