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Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum

  • Director
  • Producer
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Director and Producer Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum attends the 2022 Emmy Awards
Elizabeth (Liz) Allen Rosenbaum is an Emmy Award-winning and DGA Award-nominated director and producer. She is known for "Purple Hearts" starring Sofia Carson, which became the biggest movie opening for Netflix in 2022, Emmy award-winning original musical ""Sneakerella for Disney Plus, and "Ramona and Beezus" for 20th Century Fox, starring Selena Gomez, Joey King and Sandra Oh.

At the helm of over 50 hours of content for major networks and studios, Liz has directed hit shows such as "Dead to Me," "Empire," Gossip Girl," "Why Women Kill," "The Exorcist," "All American," "The Resident," and "Vampire Diaries." She has directed and produced six television pilots including BH90210 (CBS/Fox), Spinning Out (Netflix), Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists (Warner Horizon/ Freeform), The Kicks (Amazon), Relationship Status (Go-90), and Dating Rules From My Future Self (Hulu), all of which have been picked up to series. Liz also directed five wide-release movies including "Aquamarine," "Ramona and Beezus," and "Purple Hearts."

She has garnered a number of nominations and awards over the years. In 2017 Liz received a DGA Award nomination for "Outstanding Direction" for her work on the pilot for Amazon's "The Kicks." Her show, "Relationship Status" starring Milo Ventimiglia was an official selection for the Tribeca Film Festival and was nominated for two daytime Emmys. Her series BH90210 for CBS/Fox was the highest debut of the summer of 2019 and was an honorable mention in The New Yorker for best show of the year. The "Purple Hearts" original soundtrack overseen by Liz was the top soundtrack worldwide upon its release, and the single "Come Back Home" went gold. "Purple Hearts" also holds the number 7 spot on Netflix's top ten most viewed movies of all time. And she won an Emmy for "Sneakerella" for Best Fiction Special. She has also directed over a dozen successful music videos and was shortlisted for a Clio Award for a spec Coca-Cola commercial.

Liz began her career by directing a 25-minute USC film, "Eyeball Eddie" starring Martin Starr, M. Emmett Walsh and Michael Rosenbaum which led her to her first feature film assignment at 20th Century Fox. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Cornell University and did her graduate work at USC where she was awarded the Jack Nicholson Award for the "strongest directing" candidate.

Liz is a board member for "Cornell in Hollywood" and a professor at USC's film school. She resides in Los Angeles with her writer/producer husband, Scott, their son, Theo and her two dogs, Tony and Cookie Rosenbaum. @thisislizallen
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    Known for

    Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini in Dead to Me (2019)
    Dead to Me
    7.9
    TV Series
    • Director
    Nicholas Galitzine and Sofia Carson in Purple Hearts (2022)
    Purple Hearts
    6.7
    • Director
    • 2022
    Brianne Howey and Antonia Gentry in Ginny & Georgia (2021)
    Ginny & Georgia
    7.4
    TV Series
    • Director
    Sara Paxton, Emma Roberts, and JoJo in Aquamarine (2006)
    Aquamarine
    5.4
    • Director(as Elizabeth Allen, directed by)
    • 2006

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    Director



    • Ginny & Georgia
      • Director
      • Released
      • TV Series
      • 2021



    • Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Kelli Williams, Arlen Escarpeta, Shanola Hampton, Karan Oberoi, Brett Dalton, and Gabrielle Walsh in Found (2023)
      Found
      6.8
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2024
    • Sofia Carson: I Didn't Know (Alternate Final Performance from Purple Hearts the Movie) (2022)
      Sofia Carson: I Didn't Know (Alternate Final Performance from Purple Hearts the Movie)
      Music Video
      • Director
      • 2022
    • Sofia Carson in Sofia Carson: Come Back Home (Concert Version) (2022)
      Sofia Carson: Come Back Home (Concert Version)
      8.6
      Music Video
      • Director
      • 2022
    • Sofia Carson in Sofia Carson: Come Back Home (Piano Version) (2022)
      Sofia Carson: Come Back Home (Piano Version)
      8.6
      Music Video
      • Director
      • 2022
    • Nicholas Galitzine and Sofia Carson in Purple Hearts (2022)
      Purple Hearts
      6.7
      • Director
      • 2022
    • Chosen Jacobs in Sneakerella (2022)
      Sneakerella
      4.9
      • Director
      • 2022
    • Christina Applegate and Linda Cardellini in Dead to Me (2019)
      Dead to Me
      7.9
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2020
    • Kaya Scodelario in Spinning Out (2020)
      Spinning Out
      7.5
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2020
    • Allison Tolman in Why Women Kill (2019)
      Why Women Kill
      8.3
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2019
    • BH90210 (2019)
      BH90210
      6.9
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2019
    • Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists (2019)
      Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists
      6.8
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2019
    • Taye Diggs, Chelsea Tavares, Greta Onieogou, Cody Christian, Samantha Logan, Hunter Clowdus, Daniel Ezra, Bre-Z, and Michael Evans Behling in My Mind's Playing Tricks on Me (2021)
      All American
      7.6
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2019
    • Terrence Howard and Taraji P. Henson in Empire (2015)
      Empire
      7.4
      TV Series
      • Director
      • 2017–2018
    • Scott Caan, Chi McBride, Meaghan Rath, Ian Anthony Dale, Alex O'Loughlin, and Beulah Koale in Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
      Hawaii Five-0
      7.4
      TV Series
      • Director (as Liz Allen-Rosenbaum)
      • 2018
    • Matt Czuchry, Bruce Greenwood, Emily VanCamp, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Manish Dayal, and Anuja Joshi in The Resident (2018)
      The Resident
      7.8
      TV Series
      • Director (as Liz Allen)
      • 2018

    Producer



    • Flesh & Blood
      • executive producer
      • Post-production



    • Nicholas Galitzine and Sofia Carson in Purple Hearts (2022)
      Purple Hearts
      6.7
      • executive producer
      • 2022
    • Chosen Jacobs in Sneakerella (2022)
      Sneakerella
      4.9
      • co-executive producer
      • 2022
    • Kaya Scodelario in Spinning Out (2020)
      Spinning Out
      7.5
      TV Series
      • executive producer
      • 2020
    • BH90210 (2019)
      BH90210
      6.9
      TV Series
      • executive producer
      • 2019
    • Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists (2019)
      Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists
      6.8
      TV Series
      • executive producer
      • 2019
    • Emma Bell, Kristen Lee Gutoskie, Milo Ventimiglia, McKinley Freeman, Willa Fitzgerald, Michael Galante, Molly Burnett, and Jes Macallan in Relationship Status (2016)
      Relationship Status
      7.1
      TV Series
      • executive producer
      • 2016–2017
    • Isabella Acres, Sophia Mitri Schloss, Sixx Orange, and Emyri Crutchfield in The Kicks (2015)
      The Kicks
      6.8
      TV Series
      • co-executive producer
      • 2015
    • Eyeball Eddie (2001)
      Eyeball Eddie
      8.0
      Short
      • producer (as Elizabeth Allen)
      • 2001

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      • Elizabeth Allen
    • Spouse
      • Scott Rosenbaum? - present (1 child)
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      Graduated from USC's School of Cinema-Television in 1999 with a Masters of Fine Arts.

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