Elizabeth Baron
Elizabeth Baron
DIRECTING - STAGE
PROWLING THE ABYSS
Director / Dramaturg
2022 :
HOT! Festival, Dixon Place, NYC
2021 :
Gallery Residency, Theaterlab, NYC
NYFA City Artists Corps Grant, NYC
Karen Anne Light, Creator & Performer
YAY, AMERICA!
Director / Dramaturg
2019 :
Critics’ Choice Award at PortFringe, Oakland (Dugway Theater)
Fringe PVD
2018 :
NY International Clown Festival (The Brick)
Kaitlin Kaufman, Creator
ADAM AND EVE ON A RAFT
Co-Director
2019
Marsh Theatre, San Francisco
2018
Best of Fringe & Sold Out at San Francisco Fringe Festival
Book of Jones, Producing Company
HI! (ENTERING BURNED AREA),
HI! (JEAN-LUC GODARD) , &
HI! HOW ARE YOU?
Director / Dramaturg
2022
San Francisco Fringe Festival
Rogue Fringe Festival
Marsh Theatre
Theatre Infinite, Producing Company
2019
San Francisco Fringe Festival
Rogue Fringe Festival
Marsh Theatre
Theatre Infinite, Producing Company
2018
Rogue Fringe Festival
Halifax Fringe Festival
Marsh Theatre
2017
Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Theatre Infinite, Producing Company
THE WALLABY WAY
Director / Dramaturg
2016 - Present
Tours & Festivals in US & Canada
2016
Emerging Women (Women’s International Conference)
Gemma Wilcox Productions
PÍO MARE...MARE PÍO
Director / Co-Creator
Florence & Padua, Italy (in Italian & Veneto Dialect)
Instituto Prama
MAGICAL MYSTERY DETOUR
Director / Dramaturg
Tours 2012 - Present
Best of Fest & Best Female Performer:
Victoria Fringe & BIFF
Gemma Wilcox Productions
MARZIA SU ROMA
Co-Director
Venice, Italy
Teatro Fondamenta Nuova (in Italian)
SMITE SMOTE SMITTEN
Co-Director / Co-Creator
BIFF
Quake Theater
LOVE SONGS FOR POOMOUSE
Director / Co-Creator
BIFF (Pick of Fringe)
Co-Produced with square product theatre
AGAMEMNON
Director
Dairy Center for the Arts, Colorado
LaLa Theater Company
REQUIEM FOR A SNOWFLAKE
Director
BIFF
LaLa Theater Company
THE LAST SHOW YOU’LL EVER SEE
Director
Tours US & Canada, 2009 - Present
Nomadic Theater Company
52 PICK UP
Director
Tours US & Canada, 2008 - Present
Theatre Critic Awards
Best of Fests
Gemma Wilcox Productions
ONCE UPON A TIME: THE END
Co-Director
BMoCA Fringe Festival
Orlando Fringe Festival
Theatre 13
FEMME FAÇADE
Co-Director
Horizons Theater
(Lebanon & Egypt)
Set-Up Art
IN THE BELLY OF THE WHALE
Co-Director
The Mizel Center for the Arts
BIFF
San Francisco Fringe Fest
The Illuminated Theater
TEACHING
Helikos: Scuola Internazionale Di Creazione Teatrale
Guest Teacher
Teacher Trainer
(Padua, Italy)
2018 to Present
Helikos: Scuola Internazionale Di Creazione Teatrale
Permanent Faculty
(Florence, Italy)
2010 to 2014
Movement Theater workshops & classes
Neutral Mask
Evolved Lecoq techniques
(Polarities, Half-Mask, etc.)
(US & Europe)
2006 to Present
Voice: private & group workshops & classes
(US & Europe)
2000 to Present
Red Nose Theater Clown: intensive workshops & master classes
(US & Europe)
2007 to Present
Movement & Voice Consultant
Applied work for various productions and companies
(US & Europe)
2010 to Present
Real World Applications
Consulting work
Team building
Training events
(US)
2014 to Present
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
Institute for International Cooperation and Development
Volunteer work in Angola, Africa establishing school for orphans of the war
1990-1991
Part of education campaign throughout East Coast and on Capitol Hill to inform US of conditions in Angola
1991
Returned independently with US funding to start a community health clinic
1991-1992
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)