Elizabeth earned an MFA in Acting from the University of Virginia in 1991. Since then she has been working as a local professional actress, director, scriptwriter and acting teacher. Since 1996 she has been an Adjunct Professor of Acting at George Washington University and has taught at several local arts organizations and schools over the past 14 years including The Bethesda Academy of Performing Arts (BAPA), the Holton Arms Center for the Arts, and Round House Theatre. Elizabeth is a founding member and Managing Director of Educational Theatre Company (ETC); an Arlington based non-profit outreach Theatre Company. ETC brings Shakespeare and other theatre classes, workshops and camps to Arlington students and communities, and Elizabeth has been teaching, directing and working on the staff since it's inception in 1998. She has participated in several ETC productions over the years as a teacher, acting coach, or mentor, and has directed the following ETC full productions: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Wakefield High School), Rainbow Fish (McKinley Elementary), and The Bremen Town Musicians (McKinley Elementary).

She is a member of the Actors Equity Association and has performed at several local theatres. Her acting credits include: Amstel In Tel- Aviv (Source Theatre) for which she won the Outstanding Lead Actress Award at the Source Theatre Festival in 1996; In Good Company: the Power Edition (Horizons Theater), The Invisible Room (the Kennedy Center), Escape from Happiness (Round House), Crossing Delancy (Washington Jewish Theatre) and most recently as Vicki in Tomorrowland, a joint production hosted by both Horizons Theatre and Theatre J.

Elizabeth is also a director and scriptwriter. Her script writing experience is mostly in "issue oriented" theatre for both GW and Georgetown University's freshman orientation programs. She has been directing GW's freshman orientation production through their orientation program (Colonial Inauguration) for over 10 years. Elizabeth also adapts children's stories for the stage. She has directed for George Washington University, BAPA, Georgetown University and ETC.

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