Liz Hannah’s Writer’s Office Is Filled With Cocktails, Alex Trebek and an Elizabeth Holmes Pillow
variety.comEmily Longeretta Over the past few years, Liz Hannah has worked very hard — so much so that her two series are Emmy contenders this year.
She co-created Hulu’s “The Girl From Plainville” and served as executive producer on “The Dropout.”“We moved here in January 2021, after being in a house where my husband [Brian Millikin] and I shared an office during the first year of the pandemic while I was running the room for ‘Plainville’ and he was developing two shows,” she says. “The small space was not really copacetic so now we each have our own office.
There’s a door!”While she writes, Hannah gets distracted if music or a television is playing.“It leads to daydreaming, which leads to more procrastination.
So, I tend to write in quiet but when I’m developing or thinking about what I’m going to do, I do a lot of pacing and my husband, also being a writer and producer, we ended up having sort of many writers’ rooms for the two of us.” If she does need a change, there’s another room in the house that was used as an office by the previous owners.“I got very into custom cocktails when the pandemic hit,” she says. “We built this bar that feels like an old smoking room.
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