Crystal Liu is an American

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. She is well known for her work on FXs ''

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''.

Career

Liu got her start as a production assistant on the

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. She went on to serve as an assistant to executive producers on

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s '' Lipstick Jungle'', for the entirety of its two-season run. She served as an associate producer for one episode of '' Maneater''. She first worked with

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and Ryan Murphy on their

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musical comedy ''

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'', as script supervisor. A position she served in during the shows third year. In 2011, the writing duo recruited Liu to their new FX series ''

''. She worked as script supervisor from

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to the end of the third season; she was then promoted to staff writer for

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; before receiving another promotion to story editor during '' American Horror Story: Hotel''. She has contributed four scripts for the series.

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