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Liza is co-creator of a film production company, Subway Token Films.  Off-Broadway: world premiere of La Paloma Prisoner (Signature Theatre), To The Bone (Cherry Lane Theatre), A Fable (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), Lawn People (Cherry Lane Theatre), Drawn & Quartered (INTAR), and Dramatis Personae (Cherry Lane Theatre). World Premieres: Just Like Us (Denver Center Theatre Company), Ground (2010 Humana Festival), The House on Mango Street (Steppenwolf Theatre) and Perfect Mendacity (2010 M. Elizabeth Osborn New Play Award) directed by David Cromer (Steppenwolf Theatre). Midwest Premiere: Boleros for the Disenchanted by Jose Rivera (The Goodman Theatre). Chicago: Sonia Flew (Steppenwolf Theatre), The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Victory Gardens Theater), et al.  New York: Yerma (Circle in the Square Theatre).  TV: Criminal Minds Beyond Borders (CBS), The Affair (Showtime), Alternatino (Comedy Central).  Film: Tinto (official selection of the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival) through her film production company, Sweets (Mechanized Mules), Happily After (Glassy City Films), St. Paul (Best Short ’09 Imagen Awards).  Education: Circle in the Square Theatre School (NY), Victorian College of the Arts (Australia); she holds a B.A. from SUNY.  Liza is a proud ensemble member of The Actors Center and Teatro Vista.

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Showtime's The Affair
Directed by Jeffrey Reiner
Screenplay by David Henry Hwang

Did you catch Liza on The Affair? She played an opinionated nurse opposite Dominic West and Maura Tierney, Season 2, Episode 206. Air date: November 22, 2015

NPR's Planet Money
​Ep. 675: The Cost Of Crossing

​Liza had the pleasure of doing the voice of "Patty" a woman who tried to be smuggled into the U.S. Her story took a dark, but all too common turn.

Read more here.

TO THE BONE
By Lisa Ramirez
Directed by Lisa Peterson

Liza joins the cast of TO THE BONE, a story that follows Latina immigrant poultry workers in the U.S. and gives audiences a look inside the lives of the invisible work force that puts food on our tables. 

September 9 - October 4
The Cherry Lane Theater 38 Commerce St.

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The Ghosts of Lote Bravo
By Hilary Bettis
Directed by Elena Araoz

Liza plays Juanda, a mother in search of her missing daughter. Through visions offered by La Santa Muerte, Juanda is shown Raquel’s past only to discover that her daughter had hopes, dreams and courage Juanda never knew about.  

A Fable
By David Van Asselt
Directed by Daniel Talbott
Rattlestick Playwrights Theater

Liza joins the cast of A Fable, the epic adventure of Jonny, an idealist spurred on by love to right a long-forgotten wrong. 

The Cherry Lane Theatre 
38 Commerce St

Lawn People
By Natalia Naman
Mentored by Eduardo Machado
Directed by Elena Araoz

One of my favorite places in the world, Cherry Lane Theatre, 
I had the pleasure of collaborating on their Mentor Project.  Joining some of the most talented hearts and minds in the business, we got to experience Natalie's new play LAWN PEOPLE come to life with lights, sound and one hell of a talented team of actors. 

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Subway Token Films Launches!

Everydayers. 
Derailments. 
Street Level Miracles.

Liza Fernandez and Felix Solis join forces to create a film production company that brings to the masses projects inspired by the kind of people who choose to ride the subway every day - that is, past Midtown.  We have affectionately coined them as ‘everydayers’.  We focus on their derailments and Street Level Miracles that pulls the lens back and encourages us to see Why. 

Check out our new Website! 

​Subway Token Films transporting stories from the streets of New York to the furthest corners of the world.