writer//artist 

Lizzy believes in magic, teenagers, poetry, and courage. She loves teaching and making in all its forms.

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Lizzy's writing can be found at pan-pan press, in the Summer Des Pair Books Quarterly, in zines scattered throughout San Francisco and LA, and on the New Play Exchange. She has performed her writing as a part of 3 Girl's Theatre's LezWritesBTQ Queer Salon. Her original plays (I'll Give You the Moon, 2013; Fear Not, 2012) have been staged at venues throughout Chicago, at readings with the Woolgatherers in NYC (The Between, 2019) and at the Midtown International Theater Festival (The Angels Will Let You Fall, 2016). In February 2020, she directed as part of the Nightlight Festival for young audiences with Ghostlight Theater. Next Stop, a dance film created in collaboration with choreographer Keli Gunn was featured at Jump/Cut, a dance film festival in NYC in February 2020. 

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Lizzy is an innovative and experienced educator. She created the arts nonprofit Backyard Chicago Ensemble in collaboration with Francesca Bonifacio. Backyard brought together a team of teachers, administrators and artists to develop and pilot an original trauma-responsive theater curriculum for middle schoolers. Lizzy has had the pleasure of working creatively with youth in Chicago Public Schools since 2013. In the summer of 2020, she collaborated with the Chicago Children's Theatre and Lurie Children's Hospital on a trauma-responsive curriculum for children age 5-8 and was an invited panelist in December of 2020 on a trauma-informed arts webinar. She serves as an instruction consultant for the Chicago Children's Theatre and for educators, specializing in engaging, embodied instruction.

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She is working on a memoir and a young adult novel atm, thank you so much for asking.