Elisabeth Finch

Alum 2002

Elisabeth Finch is a television writer, playwright and essayist. She currently serves as writer/Co-Executive Producer on Grey’s Anatomy. She often works on projects with her writing partner Kate Barnow, who she worked with on the show True Blood.

Her full-length script, But Dust and Ash, focused on women’s resistance movements during the Holocaust and received two Carnegie Mellon research grants, the National Playwriting Award from Wichita State University and was produced at the Midwestern Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. Her work often focuses on female strength and faith in the face of political and social injustice.