Liz Appel is a playwright originally from Toronto. Her play BELLS LIKE HOOVES was selected for the 2022 Roundabout Underground Reading Series. She's been awarded fellowships and residencies from Ucross, Tofte Lake, the VCCA, and is a 2021–2022 5th Floor Groundbreaker Grant recipient. Commissions from Crow's Theatre (Toronto), Project Y Theatre (New York), she's developed work with Roundabout Theatre, Primary Stages, Notch Theatre, Sod House Theater, Banff Centre, Kennedy Center and more. She's been a Finalist for the Princess Grace Award, the Leah Ryan FEWW Prize (twice), Fault Line Theatre's Irons in the Fire, PlayPenn, BAPF, Ashland New Plays Festival and the Playwrights’ Center’s Core Apprentice Program. She was a winner of the Henley Rose Playwright Competition for Women, and an Honorable Mention for the Annual Parity Commission (Parity Productions), and The Hearth Theater’s Virtual Retreat. Her short play, SNOW, was produced at the Old Red Lion Theatre in London, and her play MOONSHINE, received a staged reading at the Cherry Lane. Her one-act play, REMEMBER, is published in Blackbird. She is a current member of New Georges The Jam and the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. She interviews writers and directors for Vogue.com. MFA in Playwriting from Hunter College where she was awarded a Roberts Foundation Fellowship (Dec ’21). MPhil from Cambridge (Modern and Medieval Languages), M.A. and MPhil from Yale (English).