Rain City Projects

Elizabeth’s plays include MITZI’S ABORTION, which won the 2005 ACT Theatre New Play Award and will be produced in July, 2006, and NEW PATAGONIA, produced by the Seattle Repertory Theatre and selected for the ‘Alternative Reading Series’ at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York. Her work has also been seen locally at Annex Theatre, 14/48, New City Theatre, and Freehold Theatre, where she’s finished a second season working with Robin Lynn Smith and the inmates of the Washington Correctional Center for Women. Elizabeth has written three site-specific musicals for Seattle’s One Reel Productions, including ICICLE TIMES, which featured 250 performers, two chickens, and a horse, and spawned three more years of work writing the ICICLE TIMES RADIO HOUR. Her other plays and solo performance pieces include AN ALTERED LIFE, THE MAIN ROOM, BABIES, BROADS, AND BREAD, MOSES LAKE and MORPHOMETRICS, and have been staged in Seattle, Vancouver BC, San Francisco, St. Louis, and New York. She teaches playwriting in the schools through ACT’s Young Playwrights Program, and is the recipient of several grants from the Seattle Arts Commission, as well as a Playwriting Fellowship from Artist Trust and the Washington State Arts Commission. She’s a principal playwright at Seattle Dramatists, and a member of the Dramatists Guild.