Liz directing Berkeley High School students in their original show “Get School’d.”
Liz is:
The Director of Theatre at Mid-Peninsula High School. She is on the teaching staff of the Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Contra Costa Civic Theatre.
She is passionate about working with neurodiverse students and is a certified Trauma Informed Educational Specialist via the Center for Cognitive Diversity and Cal State University, East Bay.
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.
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)”.