Elizabeth Rohrbaugh
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Elizabeth Rohrbaugh is an Emmy Award winning film and TV director. She spent ten years as a director, writer and editor at MTV Networks and is now the creative director of Outer Borough Pictures. Elizabeth is in the process of completing a narrative film "Becks," which she co-directed with Dan Powell, (co-creator, Inside Amy Schumer) and co-wrote with Dan Powell and Rebecca Drysdale (Key and Peele.) The film stars Lena Hall, Mena Suvari, Dan Fogler and Christine Lahti. She also recently served as an executive producer of the Complex series, Thanksgiving, starring Chris Elliott and Amy Sedaris, and co-directed an episode with show creator, Dan Powell. You can watch this episode, Beer Run, on Go90.
Her feature-length documentary "The Perfect Victim" aired on World Channel/PBS in the documentary series America Reframed following a successful festival run and was a finalist for a Silver Gavel Award. Her short film "Dylan" screened at Outfest Los Angeles, St. Louis International Film Festival, Boston LGBT Film Festival, Queer Fest, the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, MIX Copenhagen, Newfest, the Citizen Jane Film Festival, the Berlin Feminist Film Festival, the Mardi Gras Film Festival (Sidney, Australia) and Love: A Collection of LGBT Shorts (University of Edinburgh.) The film was a Vimeo Short Of The Week and a Vimeo Staff Pick. Other clients include LOGO, Comedy Central, Paramount, and VH1.
Prior to independent filmmaking, Elizabeth was a writer, director and editor at MTV in the on-air promos department. During her time at MTV, she wrote and directed many high profile campaigns including The Hills, The City, The Real World (multiple seasons) The MTV Movie Awards, Hustle and Flow, Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, and Kotex. She received an Emmy Award for her HIV prevention campaign for The Kaiser Foundation, and multiple CTAM Awards.
Her feature-length documentary "The Perfect Victim" aired on World Channel/PBS in the documentary series America Reframed following a successful festival run and was a finalist for a Silver Gavel Award. Her short film "Dylan" screened at Outfest Los Angeles, St. Louis International Film Festival, Boston LGBT Film Festival, Queer Fest, the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, MIX Copenhagen, Newfest, the Citizen Jane Film Festival, the Berlin Feminist Film Festival, the Mardi Gras Film Festival (Sidney, Australia) and Love: A Collection of LGBT Shorts (University of Edinburgh.) The film was a Vimeo Short Of The Week and a Vimeo Staff Pick. Other clients include LOGO, Comedy Central, Paramount, and VH1.
Prior to independent filmmaking, Elizabeth was a writer, director and editor at MTV in the on-air promos department. During her time at MTV, she wrote and directed many high profile campaigns including The Hills, The City, The Real World (multiple seasons) The MTV Movie Awards, Hustle and Flow, Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, and Kotex. She received an Emmy Award for her HIV prevention campaign for The Kaiser Foundation, and multiple CTAM Awards.
