Elizabeth London

Teaching Artist

Elizabeth is a professional actor, director, voice and teaching artist who specializes in Shakespeare and creating original work.  As an actor she has appeared Off-Broadway and downtown, including countless staged readings and festivals, from the 24-Hour Plays to Young Playwrights Ink, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop and National Dance Institute’s Event of the Year.  Regionally, she has worked with North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, Vermont Stage and Burning Coal (Raleigh; finalist for the Triangle’s Best Female Comedy Performance of the Year Award as Elmire in Tartuffe).  Since 2013 Elizabeth has been a Core Member of Hook & Eye Theater Company, who devise and perform original work and are currently developing their 4th full-length piece. Elizabeth directed and played Portia in an audio of The Merchant of Venice for JBI International and directed Classics on Tour’s 5-actor, 75-minute Romeo and Juliet which toured to tri-state schools.  Other professional directing includes Simon Stephens’ Sea Wall (Burning Coal; 4 stars, Critics’ Pick) and Pinocchio (Infinity Theatre/Arts for All, Annapolis and New York).  Elizabeth records audiobooks both for the blind and professionally (including a 30-minute excerpt of The Giver for Vermont Public Radio’s Camel’s Hump series), and was a former AAU/USA champion synchronized swimmer. As a master teaching artist for over 20 years, Elizabeth has led workshops and residencies for both educators and students with, among others, Theatre for a New Audience (18 years), the Metropolitan Opera (5 years), Vineyard Theatre, Long Wharf, Professional Performing Arts School, Summer Arts Institute, Burning Coal (Raleigh), ETC (Pennsylvania) and Perry Mansfield (Colorado). She has taught 19 different Shakespeare plays and created original performances using text, music and movement with ensembles of up to 45 students.  Education: NYU (B.F.A., Film), BADA (Oxford and London) and Viewpoints with SITI Company.  Member, Actors’ Equity. 

Elizabeth’s approach to educating and creating is experiential: making language accessible and guiding participants to bring words and characters to life, as well as enhancing self-expression through original writing and dynamic physicality.