Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain are American television

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and

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, mostly working together as partners. They have also written two

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novels together. Craft and Fain are from

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, and wrote their first piece together when they were 15 years old for their high school newspaper. Both Craft and Fain attended

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. Craft graduated from Columbia College in 1993. She is married to producer

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and is the sister of writer

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. Fain graduated from

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in 1993.

Works

''The Fix''

Craft and Fain were executive producers, creators and writers on the limited television series ''The Fix''. On this project they partnered with

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, who was a co-executive producer. ''The Fix'' aired its ten episodes on ABC.

''Angel''

Craft and Fain joined

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in 2002, during the fourth season of

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's ''

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''. They penned eight episodes of seasons 4 and 5 and served as the show's executive

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s during its fifth season.

''The Shield''

After ''Angel'' went off air in 2004, Craft and Fain joined the staff of ''

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'' as co-producers of the show's fourth season. They eventually became producers of the fifth, and supervising producers of the sixth season, also writing several episodes during this time.

''Women's Murder Club''

In 2007, Craft and Fain created '' Women's Murder Club'', a police procedural drama produced by

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and airing on

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. The show premiered on October 12, 2007, and Craft and Fain also served as its executive producers. After producing the first ten episodes, the show went on hiatus due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, and Craft and Fain were subsequently fired from the project. They were therefore not involved in the final three episodes of ''Women's Murder Club''.

''Dollhouse''

In 2008, Craft and Fain returned to working with Joss Whedon on his new series ''

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'' as

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s. The show, produced by 20th Century Fox Television, got a thirteen-episode commitment by

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and began airing there in February 2009, running for two seasons.

''Lie to Me''

When the cancellation of ''Dollhouse'' was announced, Fox moved Craft and Fain to the writing staff of the new TV series ''

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'', which surprised Joss Whedon fans. Craft and Fain were under contract to Fox, not Whedon, and they explained that it was a decision by their employers in which they had little say.

''Secret Circle''

Craft and Fain in 2010 developed a series with Kevin Williamson for

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based upon ''

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'' book trilogy by

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. Screenwriter Andrew Miller penned the pilot. ''Secret Circle'' follows a 16-year-old girl named Cassie, who moves to New Salem and enrolls in a high school there but she soon discovers that she and the other students are witches.

''Fantasy Island''

Craft and Fain rebooted ''

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'' for Fox in 2021.

Novels

The duo have written two novels, '' Bass Ackwards and Belly Up'' and its sequel ''Footfree and Fancyloose.'' The books follow nine months in the life of four teenage best friends, Harper, Becca, Kate, and Sophie.

''Happier in Hollywood'' podcast

On her weekly podcast ''Happier with Gretchen Rubin'', Craft discusses good habits and happiness with her New York-based sister,

. Elizabeth and Sarah started their own spinoff of the podcast, titled "Happier in Hollywood," in May 2017.

References

External links

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