She is the author of five books of fiction and a rock opera, and she is co-writer of "I'll Show You Mine," a feature film from Duplass Brothers Productions and that was released by Gravitas Ventures in 2023 in select theaters in NYC, LA and more and widely via VOD on AmazonPrime, AppleTV, Comcast OnDemand, Vudu and more.
The film which Elizabeth co-wrote with David Shields and Tiffany Louquet, is directed by Megan Griffiths and stars Poorna Jagannathan and Casey Thomas Brown.
A short film based on the novel, 'Four-Sided,' screened 2019-2023 in festivals in Cannes, Boston, Chicago, Madrid, Paris, Tokyo and more.
She is the creator and playwright for 'Tonya & Nancy: the Rock Opera' (music by Michael Teoli) which most recently was produced in February 2020 in an award-winning TheatreZone production starring Broadway great Andrea McArdle (the original ANNIE).
The show has had full productions in NYC (at NYMF), in Chicago, LA, Portland Oregon, suburban Dallas and Boston at the ART's Club Oberon Theater.
Searle's theater works and the Feature Film I'LL SHOW YOU MINE have drawn national media attention.
Her father Bill was a Democratic Party activist and worked at GE and other companies; Barbara, her mother, was a public school teacher and children's librarian.
She was a special education teacher and taught students with autism in schools located in New Haven, Connecticut and Providence, Rhode Island.
James Salter, a novelist and screenwriter, who wrote The Hunters, Downhill Racer, The Appointment and others, acted as judge.
"We Got Him" was a Finalist for the Midwest Book Award and was published by New Rivers Press in 2016 and was released in AudioBook in 2018 by BlunderWoman Productions.
Celebrities in Disgrace was produced as a short film in 2010 by Bravo Sierra Pictures, with a script co-written by Elizabeth Searle.
The rock opera reviewed as "brilliant and touching" in Portland Mercury and received widespread media attention described in The Oregonian.
A production in suburban Dallas Texas was produced in summer of 2018 at OhLook Performing Arts Center, where it ran along with Hedwig and Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Searle co-wrote with Tiffany Louquet and David Shields the feature film 'I'll Show You Mine' which is directed by Megan Giffiths and stars Poorna Jagannathan (Never Have I Ever) and Casey Thomas Brown (The Kominsky Method) and is a Duplass Brothers Production released by Gravitas Ventures in 2023 in select theaters and on home screens via VOD.
The film was praised in the New York Times (see review link below) and CapTimes ("Two nervy lead performances and a very well written script") as well as INTO ("a triumph").
It was produced as a staged reading at Zephyr Theater in LA in 2016, starring Evan Ross (The Hunger Games) and Gia Mantegna (Under the Dome).