Elizabeth Berger grew up in Queens, New York. After graduating high school she spent a season costuming the muppets for the show Sesame Street. She then began attending NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts for Dramatic Writing. Elizabeth has worked for MTV’s Series Development Department, the Weinstein Company’s Creative Advertising Department, and as a contributing writer for The Onion News Network. Her prose has been published in The New York Times Magazine. In December 2007, shortly before graduating NYU, she was selected to have an original play produced by the Tisch School of the Arts.