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Justin Elizabeth Sayre is an American writer and actor, best known as a writer on the TV show 2 Broke Girls. Sayre has stated in interviews that the middle name Elizabeth was adopted shortly after the death of Elizabeth Taylor, remarking "I can’t believe we’re going to live in a world without Elizabeth Taylor." Sayre later needed to add a middle name for business purposes and so made the name change legal. Sayre grew up in Pennsylvania and attended college at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, obtaining a degree in musical theater.

Sayre acted in various stage roles in New York in the 2000s before starting to write their own material. Beginning in 2009, Sayre wrote and performed a show in New York called "The Meeting", in which Sayre presented in the role of the "Chairman of the Board" for the fictional International Order of Sodomites, making pronouncements on various aspects of LGBT culture and observations on life in general. The Meeting ran in a number of venues in New York City through 2017, with some guest performances in San Francisco and Los Angeles. The show has also had occasional revival performances. Recordings of the live show became popular on YouTube. It was nominated for several awards, including a MAC Award nomination for Best Male Comedy Performance, winning a Bistro Award for "Comedy Artistry".

In 2014, Sayre moved to Los Angeles to work on the final three seasons of the TV comedy show "2 Broke Girls." Sayre returned to New York on a regular basis to continue performing in The Meeting and other events, such as the fundraiser "Night of A Thousand Judys" and limited series productions of his own. In Los Angeles, Sayre has been a semi-regular performer on Beth Lapides UnCabaret.

Sayre has engaged in a number of writing projects. These include a trilogy of books aimed at a middle-school audience: Husky, Mean, and Pretty, titled for the nicknames of the trio of main characters, and a book based on Sayre's five-part cabaret production gAyBCs. Sayre has also written for HuffPost and produces a podcast entitled "Sparkle & Circulate".

In 2019, Sayre wrote and starred in a camp horror play, "Ravenswood Manor" that ran in twelve episodes over six weeks at the Celebration Theater in Hollywood, to enthusiastic reviews. Set in the fictional New England town of Ravenswood, Ravenswood Manor drew inspiration from such soap operas as Dark Shadows, as well as mid-century horror films. Many of the roles involved cross-gender casting, or with a given actor playing both male and female roles. Guest stars included Scott Thompson, Alec Mapa, and Jim Rash (as Nancy Reagan). Sayre played the lead role, retired film star Bettina Ravenswood. In July 2020, it was announced that Sony Pictures had acquired the rights to develop Ravenswood Manor.