About

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Elizabeth is an NYU Tisch trained theatre and performance artist: actor, producer, designer, & movement director. She delights in performances that allow her to suddenly switch characters, and she has many times deployed a surfeit of accents and wigs to play the role various women on stage. Her favorite works marry challenging texts with innovative execution. As an artist, she seeks and creates intense and thrilling experiences with visceral reminders, for audiences and performers both, of the fact of being alive.

 

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, sipping fine booze and finer coffee, watching screen fiction about outer space, and one day playing Auntie Mame.

 

In residence with Torn Out Theater, and producing for Mined Canon, Elizabeth is also collaborating again with SHAG, a community center, art gallery, sexy boutique, & event space in Brooklyn, where she previously served as Director of Performance Programming. In addition, Elizabeth brings variety acts to venues up and down both coasts. She emcees trivia, hosts interactive murder mystery whodunits, creates immersive burlesque extravaganzas, and provides event entertainment of every and any kind. Elizabeth has designed a variety of group workshops, and she serves as a somatic consultant for businesses and individuals.

ELIZABETH WEITZEN

Recent & Upcoming

Two Mined Canon projects in development for debut in 2024: a literary adaptation radio play and a surreal, improvised live-stream.

 

My latest and greatest (and weirdest): "PEEP / SHOW THE BODY"

Read the PROGRAM (free self-hypnosis, too!), Buy a ZINE, Watch the PRE-SHOW (with Kara Strait!), or Rent the SHOW (sliding scale!)

 

UNIQUE GIFT? Consider an event entertainment GIFT CARD.

SEEN ME AND MINE PERFORM? Tip your event performers HERE.

 

Distraught about Roe? I made a FIGHT BACK TOOL KIT filled with concrete actions you can take right now. Zine version on the way! I've twice emceed NYAAF's Fund-A-Thon trivia (most recently sharing the mic with the brilliant Haylin Belay) and twice emceed virtual trivia for TEAFund's Fund-A-Thon. Repro org? I want to help. Let's collaborate.

 

Residency grant from SMUSH, Monira, and Mana Contemporary.


Series I shot ages ago is now viewable on Prime - check out 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 Marlo Fisken's Floor Flow Training and NONVERBAL CONSENT for IMMERSIVE PERFORMERS was featured at Actor's Launchpad. Workshops are currently available for group and private bookings.

Elizabeth Weitzen © 2024