---
name: "Elizabeth Meriwether"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/elizabeth-meriwether"
fi1m_id: "elizabeth-meriwether"
imdb_id: "nm2057975"
tmdb_id: 513378
wikidata_id: "Q2314503"
roles: ["Writer","Producer","Director"]
born: "11 October 1981"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 75
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-13T04:18:53.261131+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Elizabeth Meriwether

## Identity

Elizabeth Meriwether

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/elizabeth-meriwether
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** elizabeth-meriwether
- **IMDb ID:** nm2057975
- **TMDB ID:** 513378
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2314503
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Meriwether, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2314503, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2057975/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/513378

Writer and producer. Born 11 October 1981 in Miami.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Producer, Director
- **Born:** 11 October 1981, Miami
- **Active:** 2005–present
- **Also known as:** Liz Meriwether, 엘리자베스 메리웨더
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 5: 1 acting, 1 directing, 3 writing
- **Frequently works with:** [Dan LeFranc](https://film.one/person/dan-lefranc.md), [Kim Rosenstock](https://film.one/person/kim-rosenstock.md), [Steve Welch](https://film.one/person/steve-welch.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 75, as writer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 83 (1), 2010s 80 (1), 2020s 75 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 75 to 75 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Comedy 1, Crime 1
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Meriwether, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2314503, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2057975/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/513378

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Dying for Sex*](https://film.one/tv/dying-for-sex.md) (81), [*New Girl*](https://film.one/tv/new-girl.md) (80), [*Furious*](https://film.one/tv/furious.md) (75), [*The Dropout*](https://film.one/tv/the-dropout.md) (70)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Elizabeth Meriwether

> Elizabeth Meriwether writes women who want things they are not supposed to want and lets them go after them. The wanting is what she does best; the habit of having someone explain it afterwards is what holds her limited series back.

Somewhere in every Elizabeth Meriwether series a woman wants something she is not supposed to want, and somebody nearby says so out loud. Molly Kochan in *Dying for Sex* (2025) wants pleasure rather than comfort. Elizabeth Holmes in *The Dropout* (2022) wants a machine that will run a full panel of blood tests from a single drop, and cannot build one. Alice in *Furious* (2026) wants revenge and takes it. Meriwether is good at the wanting. She is less good at trusting us to see it without help.

She began as a playwright in New York, with productions including *The Mistakes Madeline Made* and *Heddatron* between 2006 and 2010, then went to Los Angeles and wrote *No Strings Attached* (2011). The same year she created *New Girl*, which ran seven seasons and made her a showrunner; she directed two episodes of it herself. *Single Parents* (2018–2020) and *Bless This Mess* (2019–2020), both co-created, each ended after two seasons. Then came the turn: three limited series since 2022, each adapted from a true story or a podcast, each with a woman at the centre and comedy performers around her.

*The Dropout* is the tidiest and the coolest. Amanda Seyfried is remarkable, and the series around her puts the dates on screen and proceeds like a textbook, which is why we scored it 70 and not higher: it shows you what happened and stops short of saying what it thinks. *Dying for Sex*, written with Kim Rosenstock, is the one we would press on a stranger. We laughed at its frankness, and it is occasionally rather pleased with that frankness, and then the friendship between Michelle Williams's Molly and Jenny Slate's Nikki caught us out and moved us more than a comedy about a terminal diagnosis had any right to. The difference is that Rosenstock and Meriwether let Molly want something beyond reassuring everyone around her, and the series does not apologise for it.

*Furious*, with Dan LeFranc in the writers' room, has the same nerve and less patience. It opens luridly, settles into something careful and well acted, and runs eight episodes when six would do. Its worst tic is one we have seen before: it does not trust Alice's silence, so other characters keep saying aloud what she must be feeling, after Rossum has already shown us.

"I like to go to the edge of what is acceptable," Meriwether has said. She does, reliably. Then she turns round and tells the audience where the edge was. She is next writing a Britney Spears screenplay, another young woman handed success early. It is the right subject for her. We would like it to be the one where she says less.

## Biography

Elizabeth Meriwether is an American writer, playwright, screenwriter, producer and showrunner. She was born on 11 October 1981 in Miami, Florida, and graduated from Yale University. She also attended the Juilliard School.

Meriwether wrote the play *Oliver Parker!* (2010) and the screenplay for the film *No Strings Attached* (2011). She created the Fox sitcom *New Girl* (2011–2018) and the Hulu limited series *The Dropout* (2022) and *Dying for Sex* (2025), on which she is credited as writer and story. She is also creator and writer of the Hulu series *Furious* (2026). She has created additional series including *Single Parents* (2018) and *Bless This Mess* (2019).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

### Performed in (1)

- *The Squid and the Whale* (2005), Fi1m 83, as Graduate Student — [page](https://film.one/film/the-squid-and-the-whale.md)

### Directed (1)

- *New Girl* (2011), Fi1m 80, Writer, Director, Story, Teleplay, Creator — [page](https://film.one/tv/new-girl.md)

### Wrote (3) — the average rests on these

- *Furious* (2026), Fi1m 75, Writer, Creator, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/furious.md)
- *Dying for Sex* (2025), Fi1m 81, Writer, Creator, Story, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/dying-for-sex.md)
- *The Dropout* (2022), Fi1m 70, Executive Producer, Writer, Teleplay, Story, Creator — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-dropout.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Furious* (2026), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/tv/furious.md)
- *Dying for Sex* (2025), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Story, Creator — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/dying-for-sex.md)
- *The Dropout* (2022), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Story, Teleplay, Creator — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-dropout.md)
- *Bless This Mess* (2019), series, Creator
- *Single Parents* (2018), series, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator
- *New Girl* (2011), series, as Miserable Woman · Writer, Executive Producer, Teleplay, Story, Director, Creator — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/new-girl.md)
- *No Strings Attached* (2011), Writer, Screenplay, Story, Co-Producer
- *Childrens Hospital* (2008), series, Writer
- *The Squid and the Whale* (2005), as Graduate Student — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/the-squid-and-the-whale.md)
- *The Woman in Me*, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Elizabeth Meriwether](https://film.one/media/person/21965/gallery-6740a2a6937e.jpg) Elizabeth Meriwether — Genevieve, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Flickr_-_Genevieve719_-_Elizabeth_Meriwether_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Elizabeth Meriwether (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/21965/gallery-bbcbf573e99a.jpg) Elizabeth Meriwether (2012) — Genevieve, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Elizabeth_Meriwether%282%29.jpg/1280px-Elizabeth_Meriwether%282%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Elizabeth Meriwether (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/21965/gallery-736ffa32801c.jpg) Elizabeth Meriwether (2012) — Genevieve, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Elizabeth_Meriwether.jpg/1280px-Elizabeth_Meriwether.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Dave Finkel, Brett Baer, Elizabeth Meriwether, Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield, Lamorne Morris, Hannah Simone, Jake Kasdan, Katherine Pope (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/21965/gallery-0e10375c3559.jpg) Dave Finkel, Brett Baer, Elizabeth Meriwether, Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield, Lamorne Morris, Hannah Simone, Jake Kasdan, Katherine Pope (2012) — Genevieve, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Flickr_-_Genevieve719_-_Dave_Finkel%2C_Brett_Baer%2C_Elizabeth_Meriwether%2C_Zooey_Deschanel%2C_Jake_Johnson%2C_Max_Greenfield%2C_Lamorne_Morris%2C_Hannah_Simone%2C_Jake_Kasdan%2C_Katherine_Pope.jpg/1280px-thumbnail.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![The cast is fascinated by the big screen. (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/21965/gallery-2cab7f4e4a22.jpg) The cast is fascinated by the big screen. (2012) — Genevieve, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Flickr_-_Genevieve719_-_Dave_Finkel%2C_Brett_Baer%2C_Elizabeth_Meriwether%2C_Zooey_Deschanel%2C_Jake_Johnson%2C_Max_Greenfield%2C_Lamorne_Morris.jpg/1280px-Flickr_-_Genevieve719_-_Dave_Finkel%2C_Brett_Baer%2C_Elizabeth_Meriwether%2C_Zooey_Deschanel%2C_Jake_Johnson%2C_Max_Greenfield%2C_Lamorne_Morris.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Dave Finkel, Brett Baer, Elizabeth Meriwether, Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield (2012)](https://film.one/media/person/21965/gallery-4440ebf1f709.jpg) Dave Finkel, Brett Baer, Elizabeth Meriwether, Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield (2012) — Genevieve, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Flickr_-_Genevieve719_-_Dave_Finkel%2C_Brett_Baer%2C_Elizabeth_Meriwether%2C_Zooey_Deschanel%2C_Jake_Johnson%2C_Max_Greenfield.jpg/1280px-Flickr_-_Genevieve719_-_Dave_Finkel%2C_Brett_Baer%2C_Elizabeth_Meriwether%2C_Zooey_Deschanel%2C_Jake_Johnson%2C_Max_Greenfield.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- Writers Guild of America Award for Television: New Series 2012: Writers Guild of America Award for Television: New Series (nominated), for *New Girl*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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