Elizabeth Mozer is an actress, director, theatre maker (deviser), writer and educator, with a specialization in movement and embodiment. Mozer conceived and wrote Castle on the Hill (published by Nextstage Press, 2023), which she directed and premiered at Binghamton University. Castle on the Hill, based on Mozer’s original one-woman play The Asylum Project, is drawn from the lives of patients of the Binghamton State Hospital; their stories are expressed both physically and verbally. Mozer performed The Asylum Project in New York City, Montreal, Boulder and throughout New York state. In 2019, Mozer performed The Asylum Project at the United Solo Theatre Festival in New York City, where it received the "Best Drama" award. Mozer’s most recent devised work, Natural Causes, is a theatre composition based on the texts of environmental activists woven together with song and movement. Natural Causes has had a studio performance, along with selections performed as an Institute for the Advanced Studies in the Humanities presentation, at Binghamton 2 Degrees: Live at Confluence Park, and in the worldwide festival Climate Change Theatre Action. Natural Causes was used as a template for making original theatre rooted in environmental advocacy at the Greene Middle School, where Mozer led workshops as a teaching artist. Mozer’s Natural Causes has led her to being a member of a group of six artists and scientists who received the Provost's Research Grant: A Sustainable World; they will collaborate to co-create "Energy Futures Through Art and Science: Lithium Landscapes.” Mozer has been an original cast member in the Broadway productions Teddy & Alice, Dangerous Games and Victor/Victoria. As an active member of the Cherry Artists’ Collective in Ithaca, she has performed in Carbon (English language premiere), And What Happens If I Don't (world premiere) George Kaplan (English language premiere) and Blank (North American premiere). Other recent credits include Throat with Civic Ensemble and the film The Mental State. Regional theatre roles include Sister Aloysius in Doubt, Rebecca in Ashes to Ashes and Sonya in Afterplay. Mozer has performed in numerous Off-Broadway productions and has been in close to one hundred TV commercials, in dozens of on-camera and live business theatre productions, and has worked as a voice-over artist. She is a member of SAG-AFTRA, AEA and AGVA. Mozer's directing credits include Encounters (associate director and performer), Triptych – an experience in three acts, Everybody, Dancing at Lughnasa, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone, The Burial at Thebes and A Chorus Line at Binghamton University. She devised and directed Preemptive Strike, in which she was also a cast member (BU), The Crow (PA), and A Place at the Table (NYC). Mozer is the founding artistic director of the movement-theatre company Theatre in the Flesh, originating such works as Blood & Honey and The August 9th Project. She recently took on the role of movement director for An Odyssey, a joint production of The Hangar Theatre and The Cherry Arts, as well aintimacy director for the productions Die Fledermaus and The Balcony (BU). Mozer's creative research includes the embodied art of acting, somatic approaches to actor training, devising and performance, physical theatre, movement, creating and directing original theatre — both ensemble and solo works, physical dramaturgy, the Meisner technique, auditioning and acting for the camera, theatre pedagogy and cross-disciplinary exchange. She is currently enrolled in the Michael Chekhov Technique Teacher Training Program. Mozer has taught devising and movement at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting (NYC), and has taught physical acting and movement for actors at the Atlantic School, the Ted Bardy Studio and the American Musical and Dramatic Arts in NYC. Mozer received her BA in Dance from SUNY College at Brockport and her MFA in Theatre Arts - Performance Pedagogy from the University of Pittsburgh. She has trained professionally with Laura Rikard and Theatrical Intimacy Education, Tina Landau, Anne Bogart and the SITI Co., Moisés Kaufman, Leigh Fondakowski and The Tectonic Theater Project, Stephen Wangh, Tim Phillips, Fay Simpson, Joan Evans, William Esper, Erika Berland, Wendell Beavers and Ethelyn Friend. Scripts Reviews
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