Robert Whitehead Award

Liz Oliver was a producer on Buried Child (five Tony nominations), The Last Night of Ballyhoo (Tony Award, Best Play), and Wait Until Dark, featuring Quentin Tarantino and Marisa Tomei. She received the Commercial Theater Institute’s 1998 Robert Whitehead Award for Outstanding Achievement in Commercial Theatrical Producing. Liz started her professional career in public television, in which she worked for 9 years after graduating from Yale. For WNET/13 in New York she produced, acquired and developed work by independent filmmakers. Following WNET she moved to ABC’s newly established Arts Cable service, where she developed and acquired work for the cable enterprise. Most recently Liz has begun to write for the theater. No Boundaries, her first musical, was accepted for the 2005 New York Musical Theater Festival and ran in repertory with other Festival selections at St. Clements Theatre. Liz also directed the new York Musical theatre production on which she collaborated with 6 different singer-songwriters including Speech (former lead singer/songwriter for Arrested Development), the Spooks, Pamela Laws, Laura Love, Sam Bisbee and the renown jazz bassist and composer Marcus Miller. She is currently writing a new play.