Liz directing Berkeley High School students in their original show “Get School’d.”
Liz is currently the theatre director at Mid-peninsula high school.
She is an experienced curriculum development specialist, non-profit arts administrator, community engagement specialist & educational dramaturg.
She is completing coursework to become a certified Trauma Informed Educational Specialist via the Center for Cognitive Diversity and Cal State University, East Bay.
She is on the teaching artist staff of the Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Contra Costa Civic Theatre.
As a freelance theatre educator she specializes in teaching site-specific/immersive/multi-disciplinary performance, devising, storytelling and acting to TK-12th grade students.
From 2023-2024, Liz served as the Interim Curriculum & Educational Programs Manager at The Berkeley Repertory Theatre (CA) where she brought theatre to TK-12 classrooms across the San Francisco Bay Area with a team of professional teaching artists.
She was Berkeley Rep’s Education Associate & Education Fellow, between 2022-2024 where she served as the lead facilitator of Berkeley Rep’s distinguished Teen Council.
Tin Can Learners
Liz was a co-founder of Tin Can Learners, an online, community-based afterschool program that provided joyful and creative learning in the days of online school. Learn what we offered to students on our archival website!
Archival promotional video for Tin Can Learners.
Liz is a Teaching Artist at Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s Summer Intensive, as well as the esteemed Ghostlight Theatre Camp (ME). She specializes in site-specific performance creation and non-traditional performance practices. She was previously a Camp Director for Educational Theater Company (VA) & Lead Teacher for Arts on the Horizon (VA). She has also worked with K-9th grade campers at Camp Arena Stage (DC).
summer programs
Teaching Site Specific Performance.
Liz particularly enjoys making original, social-justice based and/or immersive performance with teens. She is was most recently in residency at Berkeley High School and Oakland School for the Arts devising original plays for Berkeley Rep.
Her original curriculum, OneManyNoSuch Place, a theatrical, ecological, and site-specific exploration of living spaces, was piloted at Yorktown High School (VA) in 2020.
For High School Students
Student performing in “She Waited (A Siren Story)”.
Liz leads interdisciplinary classes that combine rigorous intellectual thought about environmental justice, ecological systems, policy, activism, with creative generation. The syllabus for her Wesleyan University course, “Ecological Crises: Investigation Through Performance,” can be found here.
Teaching ecology & performance
Undergraduate students in “The Dream Circus Project”