Lizzy Mansfield is a screenwriter and director from Newcastle. She currently has four original TV projects in development with Hartswood Films, Hat Trick Productions, Ranga Bee Productions and Little Island. Other writing credits include HORRIBLE SCIENCE (BBC/Lion), MASTER MASON (BBC Radio 4) and the long-running topical comedy show DEAD RINGERS (BBC Radio 4).
She has made several award-winning short films. Her comedy super-8 film AN INORGANIC LOVE STORY premiered at Cannes Film Festival in 2019 as part of the straight-8 selection. It also screened at Encounters Film Festival and reached the final of the 2020 Funny Women Awards. Her hand drawn animation THE PHENOMENON screened at the BAFTA-Qualifying Bolton Film Festival in 2022, and her animated short JAM JAR WORLD won Best Animation at Barnes Film Festival. She has written commercials, long-form content, and has been part of multiple TV writers’ rooms. In 2022 she directed a TED LASSO sketch for Comic Relief starring Brett Goldstein and Jason Sudeikis, which aired on BBC One.
Lizzy is a graduate of Creative England’s shortFLIX writing development scheme, the BFI/NFTS Talent Campus (directing) and BAFTA Crew. In 2020, she gained a place on the BBC Comedy Writersroom after her TV Pilot was selected from over 3,500 submissions. Her debut stage play SUPERNOVA completed a national tour to Oxford (Old Fire Station), Durham (Assembly Rooms Theatre) and Keswick (Theatre by the Lake) after a sell-out run at London’s Theatre503 in the summer of 2022.
Lizzy has a double first class degree in Physics and Philosophy from Oxford University. She has written and performed stand-up with the Oxford Revue and Tight Five Comedy, and reached the semi-finals of the Chortle Student Comedy Awards. She has a background working on set, with more than five years’ experience working as a freelance script coordinator, writer’s assistant, director’s assistant and A.D. on a host of major film and TV productions. Credits include TED LASSO (AppleTV+), PENNYWORTH (Epix), JACK RYAN (Amazon), PATRICK (Disney UK), BREEDERS (Sky), LUTHER (BBC), MARCELLA (ITV), TURN UP CHARLIE (Netflix), GRANTCHESTER (ITV) and HOW TO BUILD A GIRL (Amazon).