Lizzi is a 1998 HOPWOOD AWARD winner in screenwriting for her feature length script TAXI GIRL.

Lizzi studied screenwriting with Academy Award winning screenwriter John Briley (Gandhi) & University of Michigan Screenwriting Program Coordinator Jim Burnstein (Love & Honor, Renaissance Man).

VIDEO PRODUCTION: Lizzi wrote, directed and co-edited The Shower, a 4-minute video that was screened at the Michigan Theater in 2006.

FILM THEORY: Lizzi’s Doctoral Dissertation, Domestic Horrors: Family Values & the Intruder Film, examines a series of “person from Hell” movies popular during 1980’s & ’90’s in the context of Family Values discourse of the Reagan-Bush era.