Elisabeth Gooch

Elisabeth Gooch is originally American but has been living in Ireland for around 20 years. By training, Elisabeth is a medieval historian, having attended Swarthmore College; University of Chicago; and in the UK, York and also St. Andrews.

Lies We Tell, is Elisabeth's first realized screenplay having inadvertently gotten involved in the film business. While working as a chef in an Irish country house, she was introduced to someone who wanted a book adapted to a screenplay. That didn't work out, but the notion had been introduced and was ultimately realized by an encounter with Director Lisa Mulcahy and the opportunity to adapt Sheridan Le Fanu's Uncle Silas to the screen. Elisabeth proudly lays claim to her subversive take on the original novel, creating a heroine with far more will than the character orginally populating the pages of Uncle Silas.