Welcome to WriteLiza!

Reclaiming my title as ARTIST through caregiving and creativity

It’s me! Liza (Elkind) Wyles. She/hers. Writer. Producer. Intimacy Coordinator. (Wait, what? Read on.) I make TV and movies. I write funny and/or true words for The NY Times, Romper, Reductress, Scary Mommy, and more. I choreograph and facilitate intimate scenes in feature films, shorts, and TV.

I work at the intersection of care and creativity. My spouse was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2024 and I manage his care while we parent our two children. For most of my career in entertainment, I compartmentalized those two parts of me; the mother was separate from the employee. For more than two decades I’ve held positions at Big Media companies (Disney, AMC Networks, A&E, yadda yadda) as an executive producer, senior writer and a development executive figuring out how to hold your eyeballs hostage with TV series, movies, commercials, and editorial “content.”

That changed since growing this new branch of storytelling I get to do now as an intimacy coordinator. I arrive on set as a caregiver and it empowers me to advocate for cast and crew in my role. Care and creativity are entwined for me. It is how I can show up as truly myself and do my best work.

I’m also a yoga practitioner (with limited inversion ability), a tap dancer, and a writing coach.

I have tried being one thing at a time. It doesn't ring true for me. So to “write Liza” is to share how all these identities work together. But when character count is an issue, I am an artist. I knew that when I was five years old. Decades later, it is who I still am.

Thanks for being here because it means you value how care and creative work complement each other as a way to make a softer, gentler world for us to thrive in.