Elizabeth Baron
Elizabeth Baron
PERFORMING - STAGE (Selected)
Off-Broadway
GAME SHOW
Tina/Ellen
Bleecker Theater - dir. Mark Waldrop
MAYBE BABY, IT'S YOU
Female Lead (US/ Perf.)
(10 characters)
Soho Playhouse - dir. Jeremy Dobrish
SECRET HISTORY OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE
Joanne Mitchell
En Garde Arts - dir. Matthew Wilder
SECRET HISTORY OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE
Joanne Mitchell
En Garde Arts - dir. Matthew Wilder
Regional - AEA Productions
PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE
Suzanne / Countess
Clarence Brown Theatre - dir. Elizabeth Craven
DANCE WITH ME
Woman #3
Byrdcliffe Theater - dir. Joseph Megel
RADIUM GIRLS
Actor #2
Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey
- dir. Joseph Megel
HAMLET
Ophelia
Oberlin College & Phoenix Rising Productions
- dir. Toby Robertson
Collaboratively Created Theatre & Non-AEA Productions
DANGEROUSLY SAFE
Lead/ Co-Creator
ATLAS Black Box
Univ of CO/ Gemma Wilcox Productions
AGAMEMNON
All roles
Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO
– dir. Elizabeth Baron/ LaLa Theater
Company
BUTTERFLIES MEETING THE WINDSHIELD
Mowanna Bungalow
(One-Woman Clown Show)
Boulder Circus Center
- dir. Giovanni Fusetti
w/support of ‘The Geniuses’
THE CHAIR PIECE
Holland
(Solo comedic cabaret)
Various venues & events – USA & UK
INANNA
Narrator #1/Vocal Lead
Convergence Theater Collective, Boulder, CO
- dir. Jeremy Williams
NINA LACUNA
Jalaina Fedorovna Volkova
Nalanda Theatre, Boulder, CO
- dir. Jeremy Williams
LULL
Insomniac (Lead)
Performing Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO
- dir. Shana Cordon
PRISCILLA: A ROCK & ROLL
RIDE THROUGH TEENAGE HELL
Jordan (Principal)
Dairy Center
- dir. Trevin Gay/ Octopus League
PEACE’s
Nena
El Centro Su Teatro, Denver, CO
(workshop & reading)
A WRINKLE IN TIME
Meg Wallace
Canyon Theater, Boulder County Library
Octopus League
A PU-PU PLATTER OF LOVE
Mowanna Bungalow
BIFF - Dairy Center
- dir. Giovanni Fusetti/ Octopus League
PERFORMING – FILM (Selected)
LOVE IN THE TIME OF CORRUPTION
The Baroness
Buskerfly Productions
- dir. Phillip Van Scotter
BUSKERS BOUNTY
The Baroness
Buskerfly Productions
- dir. Phillip Van Scotter
(**Selection: Beloit International Film Festival,
Levante International Film Festival)
ALEISTER’S GOODBYE
Djanc
Independent
- dir. Jackson Ward
THE STUBBORN EARTHQUAKE
Scientist
Independent
- dir. Ryan Eggensperger
THE UGLIEST MAN IN THE WORLD
Shelly
Rocket Opera Pictures
- dir. Seth Jacobs
EDUCATION
Advanced Training in Theater Pedagogy
Hélikos: International School of Theater Creation
2009 & 2010 - 2011
Primary Teacher: Giovanni Fusetti
Movement: Normal Taylor
MFA, London International School of Performing Arts (LISPA) / Naropa University
Lecoq Based Actor-Created Theater
2002 – 2004
Primary Teachers: Amy Russell and Thomas Prattki
BA, Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music
Interdisciplinary Performance Major (Political Contextualization of the Arts)
Political Economy
European Intellectual History
African & African American Cultural & Historical Studies
Music, and Theatre
1992 - 1997
ADDITIONAL TRAINING (Selected)
Red Nose Theatre Clown
Giovanni Fusetti
2004 - Present
Apprentice to Giovanni Fusetti
Pedagogic Assistant for intensive, multi-week Theater Clown workshops:
Red Nose: The Actor In Search of the Clown & Clown’s Life
2006 - 2008
Moment Work
Leigh Fondakowski
Tectonic Theater Project
Acting
William Esper Studio for Acting (Meisner Technique)
Milton Katselas, George DiCenzo, Paul Moser,
Caroline Jackson-Smith, Jane Armitage, Michael Early
Dance
Worldanz -Gina Garcia
Alchemy of Movement - Chantal Pierrat
West Side Dance Project (scholarship student)
Steps
Broadway Dance Center
Voice
Kaya Anderson, Katherine Fitzmaurice, Saul Kotzubei,
Ethie Friend, Candace Goetz, Susan Dash
Classically trained singer, Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Martial Arts
Bruno di Loreto Wurms
Sensei McHenry
Wu Tao
Imanou Risselard & Pol Charoy
Aspects
Per Haaland
AWARDS (Selected)
2010 -
Boulder County Arts Alliance
Neodata Endowment Theater Fellowship
(awarded once every three years)
Four Boulder Arts Commission grants
(in support of various theater productions)
2009 -
for Actor in Agamemnon:
Camera's Eye Theater Awards
Runner up, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role/ Drama
2009 -
for Actor in Buskers Bounty:
Levante International Film Festival Selection
2012 -
Beloit Film Festival
2019
Director/ Co-Creator in Yay, America!:
Critics’ Choice Award, PortFringe
2018
Co-Director in Adam and Eve on a Raft:
Best of Fest, San Francisco Fringe
2014
Director/Dramaturg in Magical Mystery Detour:
Best Female Performer, Victoria Fringe
2012
Pick of Fringe, BIFF
2011
Director/ Co-Creator in Lovesongs for Poomouse:
Pick of Fringe, BIFF
2008
Director in 52 PickUp:
Pick of Fringe, BIFF
MFA in Lecoq Based Actor-Created Theater (Details of Masters program)
1st year of Lecoq pedagogy includes: neutral mask, mime, movement studies, ‘le jeu,’ improvisation, larval mask, expressive mask, tréteau, the dynamics of nature & color, bestiary, personnage (physical character creation,) use of objects, ensemble theater creation, critique and analysis, movement of language, dramatic construction in the arts (architecture and the dynamics of space, music and dramatic composition, painting and poetry)
2nd year of Lecoq pedagogy includes: Dramatic storytelling, the world of comedy, movement analysis and applied techniques, Commedia dell’Arte (half-mask,) Chorus, Tragedy, Epic drama and Melodrama, the world of the Mysterious and the Fantastic, Bouffon, the Grotesque, Theater of Objects, Human comedy, Clown, Burlesque, Cabaret, approach to classic and modern texts, ensemble and solo theater creation
Secondary Teachers Year 1
Mask making & Acrobatics – Jonathan Becker Musical collaboration & improvisation – Mark Miller
Roy Hart Voice Technique – Ethie Friend Trapeze – Nancy Smith / Frequent Fliers
Secondary Teachers Year 2
Burlesque & Cabaret - Susana Lastreto Voice – Simon Ratcliffe Acrobatics & Martial Arts – Kenneth Lewis
Butoh and Movement Improvisation – Frances Barbre Clown – Michael Murphy
Comedy of the Absurd - Alan Fairbairn Melodrama & Tragedy - Ole Andersen
Additional Workshops during MFA: Wendell Beavers (Naropa University) – Viewpoints; Adele Thompson (STOMP); Carol Mendelsohn (Roy Hart Theatre) – Singing; Kevin Crawford (Roy Hart Theatre Company) – Voice & Classical Text; Marcela Lorca (Guthrie); Colin Gee (Cirque De Soleil); Jin Woo Yoo (Ecole Lecoq)