Liz’s mission is simple: she strives to create theatrical experiences that enhance creative potential, learning and social awareness.  She serves this mission in a multitude of forms.

Liz creates and performs new plays for young audiences. These works tour with Urban Stages Outreach and have appeared at venues such as the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and the New York International Fringe Festival as well as numerous New York City Public Libraries and schools.  Liz is currently in residence with Urban Stages and The New Victory Theater's LABWORKS program creating Layer the Walls, a play about life in a lower east side tenement in the early 1900s.

As a performer, Liz tours locally and throughout the United States and Canada performing Young Audiences New York's Literature to Life® solo Stage Presentation of The Giver by Lois Lowry.  Also a dedicated puppeteer, Liz enjoys working with Double Image Theater Lab and had a wonderful time performing I Laid an Egg, at La MaMa Puppet Festival this year.

As a director, Liz creates new, devised plays with youth, senior citizens and inter-generational community casts.  She has directed such work through Urban Stages, The Museum of the City of New York and viBe Theater Experience. 

Lastly but certainly not least, Liz spends a great deal of her working hours as an educator in classrooms across New York City.  She is a Teaching Artist with several organizations, including The New Victory Theater and Lincoln Center Theater.  Liz has crafted many residencies that help bring curriculum to life by using theatre in the classroom.  She loves sharing theatre strategies with teachers through professional development courses.  Liz has also used residencies to address specific social issues.   In 2012, Liz appeared in TIME Magazine for Kids as a Teaching Artist in the role of Alice from ‘Alice’s Story’, an interactive anti-bullying piece created by Making Books Sing.  In addition to bullying, her work has been used to address topics including child abuse, trauma, mental health, violence against women, immigration, incarceration and racial profiling.

Liz has a BFA in Acting from New York University and an MA in Applied Theatre from the City University of New York.