Personal Details

Liz writes her plays under her married name of Liz Spear.

These are published by New Theatre Publications and vary in genre, content and style, from one act comedies to full length drama and farce.

Liz currently has three one act plays "Check-mate" (a domestic comedy), "It Happens in Films" (a black comedy thriller) and "Relative Disaster" (a comedy); two full length plays "Mockingbirds Don’t Sing" (a drama) and "Milly’s Moments" (a farce) all published by New Theatre Publications. She has since completed a spooky thriller, "In the Chill of the Night" which she hopes will also be accepted for publication.

Elizabeth Revill is the name Liz uses to write her novels. The first two are published by Edward Gaskell of Lazarus Press. She is currently working on the third and final part of the trilogy, "God Only Knows". Her first novel "Killing me Softly", a chilling psychological thriller, caused a storm when it was published in 1995 dealing as it did with a serial killer’s incestuous relationship with his mother and received rave reviews. The sequel "Prayer For the Dying" has been equally well received. Paul Frankson his BBC Breakfast Show Birmingham described it as the best read he’d had in years. Judy Spiers from Radio Devon interviewed Liz and admitted she couldn’t put it down.

Liz is very proud of her Welsh parentage and background but was born, brought up and educated in Birmingham where her two published novels are set, as is "God Only Knows".

Her unpublished novel, "Whispers on the Wind", which her agent, Faith Dakin of Abbey Literary Agency is trying to place, is a very different piece of work. Set in the part of Wales she knows and loves, this Welsh family saga begins in the year 1928 and takes us up to the outbreak of World War Two. A further two novels about this family are planned, "Shadows on the Moon", on which work has begun and "Rainbows in the Clouds", which is intended to bring us up to the present day.

Elizabeth Revill is a professional actress who trained for three years at the Birmingham School of Speech and Drama where she won the coveted Carlton Hobbs award. As a result she has worked extensively in theatre, radio and television and has some film credits too. She has appeared in Cabaret and sings on Tony Rome’s album "Loving and Losing", which also features a song she wrote for him.

Liz resides on a farm in the North Devon countryside with her husband Andrew who in her words is "the best thing that ever happened to me". She has one son, Ben Fielder, a professional actor himself, after being awarded a full scholarship to attend Birmingham School of Speech and Drama from which he graduated in June 2002. Ben now lives in London and Liz enjoys the opportunity this gives her to visit London. Ben is with Susan James Management. Tel: 020 7836 5723.

Liz moved from London when she finished her run in "The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe", in which she was playing the White Witch to live in the beautiful serenity of the North Devon countryside as her son Ben, had started school and she could no longer tuck him under her arm and take him with her. It was here she returned to her second string - teaching - and taught for some years at Park School in Special Needs, GCSE History and English before moving on to North Devon College where she taught A Level Theatre Studies and Voice and Speech on the Performing Arts Course.

It's Liz’s aim to develop a New Writers’ Theatre Company which will encourage the best of the professional writing and acting talent in the South West. A revised version of "Mockingbirds Don’t Sing" was their first production.

The reason this one was chosen above her other plays was because it had attracted so much positive professional interest. It was short listed for the Verity Bargate Award in 2000 and by Stop Gap Theatre at the Yvonne Arnaud theatre in Guildford and yet had not been performed. She was so encouraged by the response of Viv Beeby, senior drama and music producer at the BBC in Bristol, Viv Moore, actress and reader for the Soho Poly who deal with the award, Elizabeth Freestone respected freelance director, and Bill Buffery, writer, director and actor, formerly Orchard Theatre now with Multi Storey Theatre, that she thought why not do it myself... and so she did!

Liz has written for Trailblazer a subsidiary of Overland Films and has developed a TV series, Finders, with award winning playwright Rod Dungate. She now writes full time and has made a return to her acting career.

Liz is keen to develop her craft at all levels and would be delighted to work on any project offered.

For excerpts of her work and more information go to her website.