Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain are American television screenwriters and producers, mostly working together as partners. They have also written two young-adult fiction novels together.[1]
Craft is married to producer Adam Fierro.
Contents |
Craft and Fain joined Mutant Enemy Productions in 2002, during the fourth season of Joss Whedon's Angel. They penned 8 episodes of seasons 4 and 5 and served as the show's executive story editors during its fifth and final season.
After Angel went off air in 2004, Craft and Fain joined the staff of The Shield as co-producers of the show's fourth season. They eventually became producers of the fifth, and supervising producers of the sixth season, also writing several episodes during this time.
In 2007, Craft and Fain created Women's Murder Club, a police procedural drama produced by 20th Century Fox Television and airing on ABC. The show premiered on October 12, 2007 and had Craft and Fain also serving as its executive producers. After producing the first ten episodes, the show went on hiatus due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, and Craft and Fain were subsequently fired from the project.[2] They are therefore not involved in the final three episodes of Women's Murder Club.
In 2008, Craft and Fain returned to working with Joss Whedon on his new and upcoming series Dollhouse as showrunners.[3] The show, produced by 20th Century Fox Television, got a thirteen episode commitment by Fox and began airing there in February 2009[3][4] running for two seasons.
When the cancellation of Dollhouse was announced, Fox moved Craft and Fain to the writing staff of the new TV series Lie to Me, which surprised Joss Whedon fans. Craft and Fain were under contract to Fox, not Whedon, and they explained that it was a decision by their employers in which they had little say.[5]
Craft and Fain are currently developing a series with Kevin Williamson for The CW based upon the The Secret Circle book trilogy by L. J. Smith. Screenwriter Andrew Miller is penning the pilot. Secret Circle follows a 16-year-old teenage girl named Cassie, who moves to New Salem and enrolls in a high school there but she soon discovers that she and the other students are witches.[6]
The duo have written two novels, Bass Ackwards and Belly Up and its sequel Footfree and Fancyloose. They follow 9 months in the life of four teenage best friends, Harper, Becca, Kate, and Sophie.