Lassoing ‘Ted Lasso’ co-executive producer Liza Katzer
Liza Katzer with husband Chris Bruno at an Emmy Awards party hosted by AppleTV+ at the Sunset Tower Hotel in West Hollywood. Photo by Eric Charbonneau ‘She’s annoyingly good at everything.’ — ‘Ted Lasso’ co-creator Bill Lawrence speaking about his show’s co-producer, Liza Katzer by Yvonne Liu Last year “The Hollywood Reporter” named Peninsula native Liza Katzer to its list of “35 rising executives 35 and under.” Katzer earned the distinction as the co-executive producer of the 2021 Emmy Award winning Apple TV+ comedy “Ted Lasso. The breakout series, about a bumbling American college football coach hired to lead a British pro soccer team, was the first series to win an Emmy in its first season. It also set a record for the most Emmy nominations for a new comedy. Co-creator, and showrunner Bill Lawrence said of Katzer, “Liza has so many strengths, it’s hard to list them all. Her biggest value to us as a producer is that she’s annoyingly good at everything. It’s super fun to work with her and take credit for her work.” Katzer followed a traditional entertainment executive path, learning the industry by fire as a talent agent’s assistant. But unlike trope-ranting Tinseltown…
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