Liz Feldman is an American comedian, writer, producer and director. She is the creator and executive producer of the Netflix dark comedy series Dead to Me and No Good Deed. She also created the NBC sitcom One Big Happy and has written for 2 Broke Girls, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and Hot in Cleveland.
Career
In 1995, Feldman made her television debut as a performer and writer for All That on Nickelodeon. She is an alumna of improv groups The Second City and The Groundlings. She went on to write for Blue Collar TV, Hot in Cleveland, The Great Indoors, the 79th, 86th and 87th Academy Awards, 2 Broke Girls and The Ellen DeGeneres Show, for which she won four Emmy awards. She created the NBC sitcom One Big Happy starring Elisha Cuthbert, executive produced by Ellen DeGeneres.
From 2008 to 2017, Feldman hosted This Just Out, a YouTube talk show celebrating lesbian culture. The show was filmed at her kitchen table and featured LGBTQ and LGBTQ-friendly actors, comedians, writers, and musicians. Feldman has been an outspoken advocate for LGBTQ rights. In 2008, her joke about same-sex marriage ("It's very dear to me, the issue of gay marriage, or as I like to call it 'marriage', you know, because I had lunch this afternoon, not gay lunch. I park my car, I didn't gay park it.") went viral, recreated thousands of times across various platforms in the campaign against Prop 8, which sought to outlaw same-sex marriage.
In 2019, Feldman created and produced the Netflix dark comedy series Dead to Me, executive produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. The series starred Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini, and was produced by Gloria Sanchez Productions, the female-focused counterpart to Gary Sanchez Productions. Dead to Me premiered on Netflix on May 3, 2019. NPR TV critic David Bianculli noted, “It’s Liz Feldman’s career-best work, and it’s the career-best work for Applegate and Cardellini.” Season one of Dead to Me was fourth on Netflix’s “Top 10 Most Popular Series of 2019 in the United States.” The second season was released on Netflix on May 8, 2020. The series received four Emmy Award nominations. In July 2020, Netflix renewed the series for a third and final season. On July 6, 2020, Netflix announced that it had entered into an exclusive multi-year development deal with Feldman, under which all of her future productions will be Netflix Original series.
