Liz Hara
Mentor: Demystifying the Writers Room
Liz Hara is a Los Angeles-based writer, builder, and puppeteer. Liz writes and puppet wrangles for Sesame Street, winning Emmys for Outstanding Writing in 2018 and 2020. She has also written for CBS’s Life in Pieces, Apple+’s Helpsters, HBO’s Esme & Roy, and Nature Cat and Odd Squad for PBS. More recently, she has written for Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, Lego’s Ninjago and Ninjago: Dragons Rising, and PBS Kids’ Donkey Hodie.
Liz has built puppets and costumes for many theatrical and film productions, including Avenue Q, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, and The Lion King. In 2015, she and her team won an Emmy Award for Best Costume Design for their work on Sesame Street.
Liz is also a fantastic dancer, is super fun at weddings, and has an encyclopedic knowledge of candy.