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 in 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 in 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 Ensemble, and now also Board Member, of Hook & Eye Theater Company, who devise and perform original work and are currently developing their 5th 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 narrates audio books both for the blind and professionally (including a 30-minute excerpt of The Giver for Vermont Public Radio’s Camel’s Hump series and the audio tour of the now-showing Anne Frank: the Exhibition). She is also a former AAU/USA champion artistic synchronized swimmer.

As an educator, Elizabeth has led workshops and residencies for teachers, adults and students around the country; in addition to Literature to Life, she is a longtime teaching artist with Lincoln Center, Theatre for a New Audience and 92NY. Elizabeth has taught 19 different Shakespeare plays and created original performances using text, music and movement with ensembles of up to 45 students.

Education: NYU (BFA in Film), BADA (Oxford and London) and Viewpoints (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.