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Elizabeth Baron's bio on Helikos' website
ELIZABETH BARON has been creating and performing theater for 8/9th’s of her life. She is an actor, collaborative theater–maker, director, musician, dancer, producer and teacher, currently based half the year in Florence, Italy and the other in Boulder, Colorado. She holds an MFA in Lecoq Based Actor-Created Physical Theater from Naropa University/London International School of the Performing Arts (LISPA.) Elizabeth is a member of Actors Equity Association, and she acted professionally in NYC, performing in Off-Broadway and regional theater productions, before leaving the bright lights of the city for Boulder’s Rocky Peaks. Elizabeth now works in collaboration with various theater companies and universities, locally and internationally.
Elizabeth is currently studying and teaching as part of the intensive pedagogic training at Giovanni Fusetti's international school of theater creation – Helikos: Scuola Internazionale Di Creazione Teatrale. After having completed the three-month workshop, “The Pedagogic Journey,” with Giovanni Fusetti in Boulder in the Fall 2009, Elizabeth is continuing the training in Florence, as pedagogic assistant of the First Year program, and Voice Teacher. This involves theoretical classes, teaching, and the development of her own voice-work curriculum, in collaboration with Giovanni Fusetti.
Elizabeth was awarded the 2010 BCAA Fellowship in Theater (awarded once every 3 years.) Her most recent Colorado projects include Gemma Wilcox Productions' Dangerously Safe, a collaborative theater project, in August, 2010, at CU Boulder’s ATLAS Theater, her award-winning, highly acclaimed production of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, (LaLa Theater, June 2009, Dairy Center) and acting in Buskerfly Productions’ film: The Mayor and the Mongrel and Buskers Bounty, Levante International Film Festival’s Selection, 2009. Most recent directing: Bobby Dart's Requiem for a Snowflake (LaLa Theater, Boulder 2009), Nomadic Theater Company’s The Last Show You’ll Ever See (productions in Oregon, Colorado and California, and Gemma Wilcox Productions’ 52 PickUp, (Best of Fest, BIFF 2008) which has continued to tour the US and Canada, to great success. In 2008, Elizabeth formed the Lala Theater Company, with Bobby Dartt. She has been awarded four Boulder Arts Commission Grants, in support of various original theater productions.
In Elizabeth’s teaching work, areas of specialty are: mask, voice, red nose clown and acting coach/scene study. Elizabeth has been studying and performing mask since 2002, red nose since 2003, voice since 1984, and she has been coaching individual actors and leading scene study class since 1992. Elizabeth is pedagogic assistant to Giovanni Fusetti, world-renowned teacher of Mask and Clown. The Pedagogic Journey, which Elizabeth completed in December of 2009, was the first part of an advanced training in Theater Pedagogy, where she worked and studied alongside Lecoq-trained performers and teachers from around the world. Elizabeth leads mask, red nose, and movement workshops and classes locally and throughout the US, for independent artists, theater companies and Universities. (In 2010: University of Colorado at Boulder, Theater Dept - Workshop/ Byrd Productions, Kansas City - 5Day intensive/ Santa Cruz, CA - 3Day Intensive.)
Elizabeth received her bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College and Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Her independent major (IP), Interdisciplinary Performance Major - Political Contextualization of the Arts, combined Political Economy, Intellectual History, Literature, Music, Theater, African-American Studies, Economics, ‘Third-World’ Development, and American Pop-Culture. She was a four-year-member and co-captain of the Oberlin College varsity women’s soccer team. She also volunteered over a period of two years in Angola, Africa, creating first a self-sustaining school for the orphans of the war there, and returning independently, to start a medical clinic. As part of her IP, Elizabeth volunteered for a summer with the Grameen Bank, in Bangladesh.
For more info on LaLa Theater Company’s Agamemnon: www.agamemnonlala.blogspot.com
For more info on Helikos: www.helikos.com
