About

Elizabeth Dunn is an award-winning writer and director from the Jersey Shore with an unconventional path to filmmaking. Homeschooled from an early age, she spent half her childhood surfing on her shortboard and the rest working towards her college education. By 16, she graduated from Rowan University with a B.A. in Radio, Television, and Film, and headed west to earn a master’s from ArtCenter College of Design, graduating at 19.

A lifelong history buff, Elizabeth is drawn to stories shaped by a vivid sense of time and place, particularly those that uncover the human stories hiding inside history. Her work explores richly imagined worlds and the emotional lives of the people who inhabit them, finding connections between the past and the questions shaping our world today. That curiosity extends to her commercial directing, where she brings a fresh, distinctively youthful perspective to character-driven advertising campaigns recognized by the American Advertising Awards.

Elizabeth is also a co-author of the children’s book MacCarrig. She currently resides in Los Angeles, and in her free time, you can find her rewatching Ang Lee’s Sense and Sensibility or learning a new Chopin piece—currently tackling the Polonaise in A-flat major, Op. 53.