Netflix “Mortified" Guide”
In the summer of 2015, Liz first unleashed the fury of her 12-year-self to a roomful of strangers. Reading from her middle school diary as an adult for the Mortified Reading series at Lincoln Hall was nerve-racking at first, yet ultimately cathartic.
From there she appeared at Lincoln Hall again for Mortified’s 10th ANGSTiversary in
2016, and in 2017, was filmed performing on stage in Austin as part of the Mortified Guide, a six-party series which debuted on Netflix in the winter of 2018. She can be seen on Episode 3: The Guide to Fitting In, and apologizes in advance for her truck driver language. The Mortified Guide on Netflix.
Wisconsin Gazette.com, Summer, 2018 Liz Grossman, who grew up in the Milwaukee area, appears in an episode of The Mortified Guide, now on Netflix.
Squirms and laughs: In 'Mortified' project, adults share their private middle school angst
Wisconsin Gazette.com, Summer, 2018
“Wisconsin is to blame for Mortified,” says David Nadelberg, who 15 years ago founded a storytelling project that’s become a cultural mirror. Mortified is grass-roots storytelling where adults read their childhood writings to strangers.
It brings the era of private diaries and journals to today’s life-sharing era of social media. Words that were meant to be private are now recited before live audiences — and made available by Netflix.
