MEET ELIZA
Eliza Kelley (she/they) was born and raised in Southern California, where they were introduced to the beauty of storytelling through writing. As they were growing up, they also found a deep love for acting, directing, puppetry, as well as playing the banjo. They are an alumnus of The University of North Carolina School of the Arts' high school drama program, and returned to assistant direct and dramaturg a devised socially distant theatrical piece for the college program in 2020. They went on to receive their BFA in Devised/Contemporary Theatre at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, centering their thesis around anonymous responses to an immersive art installation they put up around several cities asking the question "have you been having strange dreams?"
The summer after graduating, they studied fiction at The Iowa Writers Workshop and developed their new play "Tame". Eliza is now based out of New York City.
RESUME
Height: 5’5” Hair: Auburn Eyes: Blue
THEATRE (Directing)
Missing Mercy Director Orlando Fringe Festival
Machinal Assistant Director Boston Conservatory at Berklee
Inheritance: A Work in Progress Assistant Director UNCSA
The Humans Assistant Director Boston Conservatory at Berklee
Hades and the One Year Winter Assistant Director New Ground Theater Company
A Day in Hollywood… Assistant Director Boston Conservatory at Berklee
Savage in Limbo Assistant Director Boston Conservatory at Berklee
THEATRE (Acting)
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Midsummer Nights Dream Titania Boston Conservatory at Berklee
The Seagull Arkadina Boston Conservatory at Berklee
American Buffalo Teach Boston Conservatory at Berklee
The Goat Stevie Boston Conservatory at Berklee
The Glass Menagerie Laura Wingfield UNCSA
As You Like It Celia UNCSA
Angels in America Harper Pitt UNCSA
THEATRE (Puppetry)
Hir Puppet Master UNCSA
Why I Still Wear This Skin Puppet Designer Double Edge Theater
Shrek Puppet Operator Boston Conservatory at Berklee
Hir Puppet Master Boston Conservatory at Berklee
INTERNSHIPS
Ko Festival of Performance “Radical Acts” The 27th Annual Season
TRAINING
Boston Conservatory at Berklee Contemporary Theater BFA
Ko Festival of Performance (Amherst, MA)
Theatre As If Your Life Depended On It Workshop (Helen Stoltzfus- Black Swan Arts & Media)
University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA)
Artists Reaching Children in the Hospital (A.R.C.H.)
SPECIAL SKILLS
Dance/Movement: Contact Improv (Olivier Besson), Grotowski Movement (Kate Amory), Jazz (Mollie Murray), Ballet (New World Dance Studio, CA)
Circus Skills: Acrobats (Handstands, Headstand, Shoulder Rolls, Tiger Leaps), Plate Spinning, Juggling, Magic Tricks
Stage Combat (Dale Girard and Angela Jepson): Unarmed/Hand to Hand Combat, Lightsaber, Katana Technique