When Conan O’Brien takes the stage to host the 2026 Academy Awards for the second year in a row, his wife is there to support him. When he organized the 2025 show, his wife was by his side. Here’s everything about Liza Powell O’Brien’s wife.
What is Liza Powell O’Brien’s occupation?
Liza Powell is a playwright and television presenter who has written at least 12 plays throughout her career. Liza holds a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Fiction Writing from Columbia University School of the Arts. He also earned a bachelor’s degree from Vassar College in New York, and served as the inspiration and subject of his 2019 play ‘The Great Experiment’. According to its official site, the play is set in 1865, four years after the establishment of Vassar, with the following premise: “First year means new horizons, questionable decisions, toxic friendships and culture clashes. It also marks the dawn of a new era in the radically progressive ‘first women’s university’.”
Liza Powell O’Brien has written a dozen plays
Liza is an accomplished playwright who has written at least a dozen plays, each developed and presented at venues such as the Geffen Playhouse, Blank Theatre, Unscreened LA, Lark Theater and the Ojai Playwrights Conference.Beyond The Great Experiment, her credits include Ruthie Goes Shopping, John Wayne Times, The Distinguished Gentleman, and Lucky, to name a few. His full-length work, Apostrophe, premiered at the 2020 Ojai Playwrights Conference. It premiered on June 10, 2022, at the Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, Langley, Wash.
How did Liza Powell meet Conan O’Brien?
Liza Foote was a copywriter at the Cone & Belding advertising agency when she met Conan in 1999. The agency was selected to do a remote segment on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, where they worked with their “worst advertisers” to deliver a commercial makeover. Liza was part of a team that worked on an ad for Hilton Furniture. He visited the offices of the Conan agency, where he met Liza and the rest of the FCB group, and according to the talk show host, he immediately fell in love. “Somewhere in the NBC vault, there’s footage of me literally falling down in front of my wife,” Conan said of the meeting in a 2012 interview with Piers Morgan.
Liza Powell married Conan O’Brien in 2002
Conan and Liza tied the knot in the bride’s hometown of Seattle on January 12, 2002, at St. James Cathedral. The couple welcomed their first child, daughter Neve, on October 14, 2003. According to Neve’s LinkedIn, he has been a student at Yale University since 2022 and is expected to graduate in 2026. Liza gave birth to her second child, son Beckett, on November 9, 2005.
Liza Powell introduced ‘Significant Others’ the podcast
Liza wrote, narrated, and wrote episodes for the Significant Others podcast on her husband’s podcast network, Team Coco. The non-fiction podcast “tells the story of a talented, difficult and unknown person who changed the fate of their best-known partner, child, sibling or friend and impacted the world they left behind,” according to the show’s description.
