About
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Elizabeth is an NYU Tisch trained theatre and performance artist: actor, producer, designer, & movement director. She delights in sudden character changes and has many times deployed a surfeit of accents and wigs to play the role various women. Her favorite projects marry challenging texts with innovative execution. As an artist, she seeks and creates intense experiences that viscerally remind performers and audiences of the fact of being alive.
Currently in residence with Torn Out Theater, and producing for Mined Canon, Elizabeth is also collaborating again with SHAG, a community center, erotic art gallery, sexy boutique, online magazine, & event space based in Brooklyn, where she previously served as Director of Performance Programming. Elizabeth brings variety acts to venues up and down both coasts: she emcees trivia, hosts interactive whodunits, creates immersive burlesque extravaganzas, and provides event entertainment of every and any kind. She regularly leads a variety of group workshops, and she serves as a somatic consultant for businesses and individuals. She also indulges her body interests on the regular, spending some of her time coordinating operations at Kinected, a NYC hub for movement and anatomy education, Pilates, and Functional Manual Therapy.
Elizabeth is passionate about books, shoes, and food. Her other interests include running cat rescue operations, re-reading Baruch Spinoza, wriggling around on the floor at contact improv or liquid motion jams, sipping fine booze and finer coffee, watching screen fiction about outer space, and one day playing Auntie Mame.
ELIZABETH WEITZEN
Recent & Upcoming
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Mined Canon projects in the works: literary adaptation radio play; surreal metaphysical heist (an EAG Open Stage Grant finalist!); & an improvised live-stream. Mined Canon creates accessible, grant-funded work, including PEEP / SHOW THE BODY, which was called "a seductive bulldozer of trauma and anxiety" by critics. Read the PROGRAM (free hypnosis mp3s!), buy ZINES, watch the PRE-SHOW (w/ Kara Strait!), or rent the FULL SHOW. (sliding scale! minimum 50¢! support weird art!)
UNIQUE GIFT? Consider an event entertainment GIFT CARD.
Seen an event? Show performers love with a TIP right HERE.
Distraught about Roe? FIGHT BACK TOOL KIT filled with concrete actions you can take. Zine on the way. Twice emceed trivia for NYAAF (recently w/the brilliant Haylin Belay) & twice emceed trivia for TEAFund. Repro org? I want to help: hmu
Series I shot a million years ago is on Prime: FEAR. I make an appearance in episode 2. I also scream queen my way through the yet-to-air second season, where (spoiler), I die violently.
My VOCAL TECHNIQUE FOR MOVERS (& SHAKERS) was included in Floor Flow Training and NONVERBAL CONSENT for IMMERSIVE PERFORMERS was featured at Actor's Launchpad.
Elizabeth Weitzen © 2024