Liza Johnson
Liza Johnson is an American film director, producer, and writer.
Biography
Johnson was born in Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1970. She attended Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, graduating with a B.A. in Visual Arts in 1992. She then went to the University of California, San Diego, where she received her MFA in 1995.Her narrative shorts and experimental videos have screened in Berlin, Rotterdam, and many other international festivals and fine arts venues. Her video installations have been shown in Artists Space in New York, the ICA in Philadelphia, Cineboords in Rotterdam, and Mass MoCA and Williams [College Museum of Art|WCMA] in Massachusetts. She has also published critical writing on art and film, and has curated a number of museum exhibitions and festival programs. Along with her collection of short films, Johnson has directed five feature films, including Return, Hateship, Loveship, Elvis & Nixon, and Saving Bikini Bottom: The [Sandy Cheeks Movie].
In 2025, Netflix released Shondaland's The Residence, of which Johnson served as director for the first four episodes.
Filmography
Short film- Giftwrap
- Falling
- Desert Motel
- South of Ten
- In the Air
- Karrabing! Low Tide Turning
- Fernweh – The Opposite of Homesick
- Return
- Hateship, Loveship
- Elvis & Nixon
- Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie
| Year | Title | Notes |
| 2015 | Good Girls Revolt | Episode "Pilot" |
| 2017 | Feud | Episode "More, or Less" |
| 2017 | American Horror Story | Episode "Don't [Be Afraid of the Dark (American Horror Story)|Don't Be Afraid of the Dark]" |
| 2018 | American Woman | Episode "The Heat Wave" |
| 2019 | A [Series of Unfortunate Events (TV series)|A Series of Unfortunate Events] | 2 episodes |
| 2019 | Barry | Episode "What?!" |
| 2019 | Sneaky Pete | Episode "The Mask Drop" |
| 2019 | Silicon Valley | 2 episodes |
| 2020 | What We Do in [the Shadows (TV series)|What We Do in the Shadows] | Episode "The Curse" |
| 2020 | Dead to Me | 2 episodes |
| 2021 | Physical | 3 episodes |
| 2021 | The Sex Lives of College Girls | Episode "The Truth" |
| 2023 | The [Last of Us (TV series)|The Last of Us] | Episode "Left Behind" |
| 2023-present | The Diplomat | 4 episodes |
| 2024 | The Franchise | 2 episodes |
| 2025 | [The Residence (TV series)|The Residence] | 4 episodes |