Elizabeth Beeler  
BIOGRAPHY  
 

Acting:
   (Directing/Coaching Credits)

Recently:

  • Elizabeth has premiered her one woman show and CD "Unlaced" in Toronto, May 2006
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  • Starring as Liza Eliot the flamboyant love lost high fashion editor in the Canadian Premiere of Kurt Weill/Moss Hart/Ira Gershwin's Lady In The Dark
  • The International Premiere of Rob Roy at the 2006 Edinborough Fringe Festival
  • Dorothy Brock in 42nd Street for Drayton Entertainment
  • A summer under the cowboy hat in Annie Get Your Gun with Louise Petrie at Massey Hall
  • Two brilliant workshops for Canadian Stage:
    • a wicked new villainess, the society Madam Dahlia for Leslie Arden's new musical Moll
    • One of the 4 in Jonathan Monro's new Variations on a Nervous Breakdown

Her Major credits include original Canadian casts of:

  • Les Miserables playing Cosette in the first International tour!
  • Aspects of Love, Canadian and U.S. National Tours, directed by Robin Phillips
  • Hal Prince's Show Boat, Toronto, New York playing Magnolia
  • Babette, the sexy French maid in Disney's Beauty and the Beast
  • Diana Rivers in the Broadway bound Jane Eyre
  • A season with the Shaw Festival
    • Anything Goes - Hope Harcourt
    • Marathon 33 - The Mick
  • A season with the Neptune Theatre
    • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum - Philia
    • Cinderella - Cindy
    • Shine Boy - Kitty

Elizabeth has also been fortunate to be part of a good many developing new works including:

  • Dracula - Lucy, for the Neptune Theatre
  • Larry's Party - Beth, for Canadian Stage
  • Evangeline - for The Stratford Festival
  • Colours in the Storm - the Tom Thomson mystery
  • A retelling of The Magic Flute - The Magic of Love
  • And some very interesting Greek concoctions by Greg Robic
    • The Assembly Women
    • Lysistrata

Toronto Operetta Theatre audiences have delighted in her lighter side as:

  • Hanna in The Merry Widow - 2007
  • Maritza, in The Countess Maritza
  • Masha in The Chocolate Soldier
  • Adele in Die Fledermaus

Favourites include:

  • Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes for Drayton Entertainment
  • Mona Kent in Dames at Sea for the St. Lawrence Stage Company
  • one of three Joni's in When All The Slaves Are Free - The Music of Joni Mitchell for The Great Canadian Stage Company, Ottawa

Elizabeth has been heard as soprano soloist with Eric Kunzel featuring selections from contemporary and classical musical theatre for the Chicago, Philadelphia, Toronto, Detroit, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Naples Symphonies.

She can be heard on the cast recordings of Showboat, Jane Eyre and the newly released Rob Roy. She has voiced villains, race cars, violins, frogs and creatures from space for Sailor Moon, Ba Ja Bah and Jimmy Jinx Goes to the Moon.

Television and Film Credits include:

  • The 11th Hour
  • The News Room
  • E.N.G.
  • War of the Worlds
  • the CBC series 9B
  • (and also a little thing with a pig for CBC- No, REALLY!!)