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Elizabeth Whitney
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Website http://www.elizabethwhitney.com >> This web site features photos of the artist's work.

Personal Statement: Elizabeth Whitney is an actor and a writer/performer with a penchant for campy comedy who lives in New York City. She was most recently seen as "Patty" in THE SECRETARIES (Best Ensemble NYC Fringe 2010) and LET THEM EAT CAKE at Dixon Place (LAMBDA Theatre Award Nomination). Other recent performances include SHOWGASM (Ars Nova), The Bulldyke Chronicles and the HOT! Festival (Dixon Place), Drunken Careening Writers, the Famous Lesbian Comedy Road Show, and The Femme Show. She collaborates with her partner Lea Robinson on THE MISCEGENATIONS PROJECT (www.miscegenations.org), an educational theatre piece about intersections of cultural identity. She has been featured in GO Magazine’s 100 Women We Love and was awarded best newcomer playwright by Curve Magazine in 2010. www.elizabethwhitney.com
Short Bio
Elizabeth Whitney's work has been seen at Hysteria Performance Festival & Summerworks Theatre Festival (Toronto), Columbus National Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival (OH), Kitchen Theater (Ithaca, NY), Cincinatti Playhouse in the Park (OH), Mae West Fest (Seattle), Queer @ HERE, Fresh Fruit, FUSE, Galapagos Art Space, The Tank, The Duplex Cabaret, & PS 122 (NYC), Provincetown Fringe Festival (MA), The Beauty Benefit & Woodland Pattern Books (Milwaukee), Athica Art Institute (Athens, GA), Homolatte, Hothouse, Stockyard Theatre's Annual Women's Perf Fest, & Single File Solo Fest (Chicago), DramaRama & GirlGang Productions (New Orleans), The National Women’s Studies Association’s Conference (Las Vegas & Milwaukee), Bryant Lake Bowl Theatre & The Minneapolis Fringe Fest (Minneapolis), The New Genre Festival (Tulsa), The Real Time Performance Festival (KS), & The Greylight Theatre’s Annual Dada Performance Art Party (IL). She is a recipient of Curve Magazine's Lesbian Theatre Awards, Best Solo Performance at the Columbus Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival, and Best Performance at the Fresh Fruit Festival. She holds a Ph.D. in Performance Studies and teaches at Barnard Center for Research on Women.
Honors
Her work has been supported by the Puffin Foundation, Third Wave Feminist Foundation, Wisconsin Humanities Council, and Cream City Foundation.

Union Affiliations/Professional Organizations
Dramatists Guild, Theatre Communications Group, International Centre for Women Playwrights
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Artist Location
New York, NY

Type of artist
Performer, Arts Educator, Writer
General Themes
Activism/Social Justice, Feminism/Gender Issues, Sexuality, Race/Ethnicity/Cultural Identity, Art Forms/Art Criticism
Last updated on May 2nd, 2011

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