• Welcome to my site. Check out my Performance Videos, Photo Galleries, and solo show in development, on est deshabille. Also, you can download a PDF Booklet about my theater, Live Sound Action, and Elephants and Gold, my ensemble music play produced at Berkshire Fringe and currently in further development for NYC Production. See 2012 Workshop/Teaching/Performance Events.
  • Performance Resume

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    Eliza Ladd

    Height 5’7”, Brown Hair, Hazel Eyes

    eliza@elizaladd,com , www.elizaladd.com

    917-617-8865

    REGIONAL THEATER

    • 23 Seconds About John Cage, Ensemble, Dir. By SITI Company, Boulder, CO
    • Desolate Delight, Ensemble, Dir. By Barbara Dilley, Boulder CO
    • This Thing of Darkness, Live Sound Action, Dir. By Randy Rand, Boulder, CO
    • Aliens on Ice, ICE Officer/Ensemble, Nalanda Theater, Boulder, Co
    • Roadie, Yellow Bird Singer, Nalanda Theater, Boulder, CO
    • The Accidental Activist, Singer / Live Sound Action, Aurora Thtr , CA., Verm. St, VT
    • The Language Of the World, multiple roles, Summer Arts, Cal State Fresno, CA
    • Love’s Labour’s Lost, Princess of France, Lost Nation Theatre, Montp, VT
    • A Midsummer Night’s Dream, First Fairy, Shakespeare & Co, Lenox, MA
    • The Comedy of Errors, Antipholus of Ephesus, SPI, Shakespeare & Co, Lenox, MA

    OFF BROADWAY THEATER

    • Casa Cushman, Ensemble / Live Sound Action, NYTW Workshop, Orchard Project
    • School For Scandal, Snake/Benjamin Backbite, Queen’s Company, at Connelly
    • Antony and Cleopatra, Pompey/Scarus/Maecena, Queen’s Company Workshop
    • The Accidental Activist, Singer/Percussionist, Connelly Theater
    • Bury The Dead 2005, Ensemble/Percussion, Great Hall at Cooper Union
    • Lysistrata Project 2003, Pre-Show Musician, BAM Harvey Theater
    • The Master of Prayer, Rebbe Nachman/Ensemble, Metropolitan Playhouse
    • Captains and Courage, Singer/Live Sound Action, T. Schreiber Studio
    • Song of Songs, Ensemble, Greenwhich Street Theatre
    • Scott and Zelda, Madame Egorova, Wings Theater
    • Meet John Doe, Ann Mitchell,The Kraine Theater
    • Dark Of The Moon, Ms. Summey ,T. Schreiber Studio
    • Until The Next Whirl, Denya (Earth), La Mama
    • The Flies, Second Fury, One Dream
    • Time’s Fool, Ensemble, P.S. 122
    • My Throwing Arm, Live Sound Action, Under One Roof

    ORIGINAL SOLO AND ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE

    Mixed Discipline Performance works created and performed by Eliza Ladd:

    • Elephants and Gold: Boulders in My Belly, Nalanda Thtr, Boulder, CO
    • My Name is Candelabra and I love You, PAC, Boulder, CO
    • Chicken Man: Who Does the Dirty Work? I do, Nalanda Theater, Boulder, CO
    • Four Ways of Living, Nalanda Theater, Boulder, CO
    • Elephants and Gold 1, Boulder, CO Fringe Festival 2007
    • Fruit Bearing Branch, P.S.122 NYC
    • Blue Bags, P.S.122, NYC
    • Boulders In My Belly, Dixon Place, NYC
    • Pass Me Through The Holed Stone, Dixon Place, NYC
    • Patience My Blood, Dixon Place, funded by an Emerging Artist Grant from Franklin Furnace, NYC
    • Blue Bag Mountain, Movement Research, NYC
    • The Landing, Dia Downtown, NYC

    FILM / TELEVISION

    • Sore Loser, Woman (Lead), Dave Silver, Dir.
    • Venus and Lola, Rocker, Two She’s Productions
    • Math and the Arts, TV411, Percussionist/Teacher, Picture This Television, PBS
    • She Wolf, She Wolf (Lead), Dauphin Productions
    • Have You Heard, Joyce (Lead), DLS Productions

    TRAINING

    • MFA Naropa University, Theater: Contemporary Performance
    • B.A. Harvard University, Cum Laude Comparative Study of Religion
    • Acting: Grotowski: Steve Wangh, Andre Gregory; T. Schreiber Studio: T.Schreiber, Mary Boyer, Sally Dunn, 6 yrs. Training, Suzuki (SITI)
    • Singing Performance: Susan Slavin Actors and Singers Academy, 9 yrs. training
    • Shakespeare: Shakespeare & Co. Summer Perf, Institute (2001) & Month Intensive (2000)
    • Voice: Linklater: Kristin Linklater, Christine Adaire, Margaret Jansen; Roy Hart; Lynn Singer
    • Improvisation: Ruth Zaporah, Meredith Monk, Viewpoints (SITI), Wendell Beavers, Barbara Dilley
    • Clown: Giovanni Fusetti, Kevin Coleman, John Beale, Susan Dibble, Karen Beaumont
    • On Camera: Peter Miner
    • Movement: Capoeira, Butoh, Contact, BMC, Developmental, African, Klien-Mahler, Fight, Body Dynamics™

    SPECIAL SKILLS

    Percussionist: Djembe, Sourdo, Berimbau, Pandeiro, Objects; Musician: Voice, Guitar, Keyboard; Teacher, Body Worker; Athlete, Wilderness Skills. Chef, Sculptor, Dialects: Southern, Standard English, Cockney, Irish, Russian