Beth Lisick

Biography

Beth Lisick is a writer and actor. She is the author of five books and has appeared in films screened at Cannes, Sundance, and the San Francisco International Film Festival.

Her acting credits include leading roles in Frazer Bradshaw’s Everything Strange and New, which won the FIPRESCI critics’ prize, was nominated for the Spirit and Gotham awards, and screened at festivals including Sundance and Karlovy Vary; and three of Joey Izzo’s short films: Stepsister, which screened at San Francisco International and Cannes in 2013, My Daughter’s Boyfriend (2015) Best Film of the Year at NoBudge, and I Was There Too (Aspen 2017). She also has a couple lines, spoken nude from a hammock, in the Amazon series Transparent.

Beth has a degree in American Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz. A native of the Bay Area, she currently lives in Brooklyn and is working on her first novel.