Liz is a New York City based multi-instrumentalist, theatre performing artist, and co-founder of Anonymous Ensemble. Liz has performed in thirty-something of AnEn’s productions worldwide since 2002, from the Edinburgh Fringe to the Brisbane Festival. Productions in New York include award-winning plays, improv and plays with music with Mabou Mines, LaMama, the Ohio Theatre, P.S. 122, Ars Nova, HERE, and Ensemble Studio Theatre. Films include Four Eyed Monsters and See Saw. You can hear her voice in The Love Game, national television and radio spots, and audio adventure series.
Liz has been a guest lecturer at NYU, Princeton, Duke, UNC, Wesleyan, Hellenic American University, UNC Chapel Hill, Muhlenberg, JMU, and SUNY Buffalo. Each engagement ranges from teaching workshops to the students and staff, to spending months in residency with the students to create new works of theatre.
Liz has been singing and playing music her entire life, starting with the piano at age four and violin at seven. She played violin for years in the Louisville Youth Orchestra, including a stint as concertmisstress. In piano she won various state competitions. She began guitar in high school, picked up the ukulele in Fiji in 2006, and hasn’t put it down since. Liz learned the accordion in 2007 to play all over the city of Edinburgh during the festival, and was introduced to the baglama in Greece. She learned to playelectric bass to join a band and performs with various plays, bands, and concerts from the Pyramid Club in NYC to Stratford Circus in London. Playing in hootenanies in New York incited her love for the banjo and afforded her introductions to the mandolin, dobro and upright bass. She began writing electronic music in 2017, primarily in the service of her theatre company, Anonymous Ensemble. She is currently working on an album of lullabies from around the world.
