OTHELLO FEAUTURED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES
Liz Livingston as Desdemona in the Drilling Company/Bryant Park production of Othello
Theater: ‘Othello’ Alfresco, in Bryant Park
By The New York Times
LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES
“O.K., yes, “Othello” is one of Shakespeare’s less relaxing plays, what with its tale of eminently avoidable homicide…”
THE FIVE SENSES AND BEYOND
Liz returns to Abrons Arts Center as an Artist Teacher for The Five Senses and Beyond, wherein students “will experiment with the senses of sight, scent, touch, sound, and taste, through food art, miming, story telling, color mixing, and sound waves.
HAMLET
HAMLET
Directed by Karla Hendrick
May 16th - 25th
Thursdays - Saturdays
7 PM in Bryant Park
Liz Livingston will play Guildenstern in this modern retelling of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, presented by The Drilling Company in Bryant Park.
THEY SING HIM HOME
Shakespeare’s 455th Birthday Celebration
Liz Livingston as Juliet in a scene from Romeo and Juliet
Photo by Thomas Wilson
“Then Sing Him Home”
Tuesday, April 23rd
6:00 – 7:15pm
A birthday party for the Bard that puts a modern and musical twist on his timeless stories. The evening will feature classic monologues and scenes performed by The Drilling Company, as well as original Shakespeare-inspired music written for past Bryant Park productions.
“Fantasy City” by Liz Livingston for Have Digital
“Fantasy City” by Liz Livingston is a short piece that asks what it’s like to live far from home.
Conceived and photographed by Manuela Montañez for Have Digital online magazine.
Liz Livingston directs “THE VVOKE” by Matt Minnicino as part of Brett Epstein’s Rule of 7X7 at The Tank
7 PLAYS | 7 WRITERS | 7 RULES
RULE OF is an ongoing series that premieres 7 brand-new 10 minute plays by 7 different writers. For each show, every playwright comes up with one rule, then the 7 playwrights create new plays using all 7 rules.
Conceived and produced by Brett Epstein
RULE OF 7X7 REVIEWS
"BEST BET: Unique Theatre Experience. Excellent actors and writers. Hilarious." -Theasy
"A ROUSING, often RIOTOUS evening that showcases DIVERSE talent in NYC." -MyEntertainmentWorld
“HOME” by Ellen K. Graham, directed by Liz Livingston, opens as part of The Lift-Off New Play Series
“HOME,” written by Ellen K. Graham and directed by Liz Livingston, will feature Ashley Versher as English and Daniela Thome as Ro.
Rounding out the all female team are lighting designer Callie Stribling and the Lift-Off New Play Series’ producer, Ariel Franceour of The Navigators Theater Company.
SEVERANCE by Jack Horton Gilbert premiering at The Tank
Written by Jack Horton Gilbert, directed by Jake Beckhard with Associate Director Liz Livingston, and featuring the cast of Marlowe Holden, Alesandra Nahodil, Brendan Dalton, Rachel Lin, Evan Hall, Lindsley Howard, and Karsten Otto SEVERANCE is running at The Tank Theater in Midtown from:
Wednesday, January 23rd through Saturday, January 26th at 8PM each night.
Tickets are $10 on Wednesday and Thursday and $15 on Friday and Saturday.
Liz Livingston to direct “Home,” a new play by Ellen K. Graham, for The Navigator’s fourth annual Lift-Off Festival.
The Navigators’ mission is to incubate and produce Science Fiction Theater with a clear feminist perspective. We are dedicated to elevating female driven stories in a genre dominated by men by empowering female-identifying playwrights, producers, directors, designers, and actors in our productions. We seek to engage new audiences, realize new and daring realities, and expand the boundaries of what theater can achieve by fully exploring sci-fi on stage
January 25th and 27th at the Plaxall Gallery
Liz Livingston joins Abrons Arts Center to Bring the Classics to NYC Children’s Theater
Liz returns as a teaching artist at Abrons Arts center this spring to teach Playtime, focused the basics of theatrical collaboration, Creation Myths, a class using myth structure to teach playwriting, and an Intro to Theater at a partnering Henry Street Settlement high school, where she and the students are writing a sitcom episode inspired by Commedia dell’Arte.
Liz Livingston featured in New York Yoga+Life Magazine
After receiving her RYT-200 yoga teacher certification and joining the teaching team at MindBodySoul Yoga Studio in Washington Heights, Liz was chosen as a “Teacher We Love” by New York Yoga Life Magazine.
In the article, Liz is quoted as saying, “Whether your lotus is stuck in the mud or fully bloomed, I hope you find healing - first in yourself and thus the world.”
Photos by Renee Choi, @sfreneenyc on Instagram
"WE ARE THE HOMEFRONT: Katrina" featuring Liz Livingston
Episode 2 of “We Are The Homefront.” Liz Livingston as 'Katrina'. Directed by Ariel Francoeur. Created by Lauren Cusker in association with Spirit Fox Productions.
We Are The Homefront is a collection of military spouses stories using verbatim theater. This series celebrates the unsung heroes of military families - the spouses.
"A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM" IN BRYANT PARK
Liz Livingston to present a physical take on the First Fairy in the Drilling Company's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in Bryant Park, Fridays and Saturdays May-June 2018.
WE ARE THE HOMEFRONT
Liz Livingston to portray the experience of a real-life military wife in an episode of "We Are the Homefront," releasing May 2018
"Generally, popular culture and the news focuses on the military members, so we have chosen to take this opportunity to show you what a different side of military life looks like. These are true stories telling what it means to be a military spouse; because it is easy to forget that the family also serves..."
-Lauren Cusker, Creator of The Homefront Project
STRANGE MELODY: MALADY
Praise from The Black List for "Strange Melody," a creature feature from Stephen Kerstein within which is "Malady," a short film starring Liz Livingston
"Stands out as a unique and intriguing character study."
"The lead role is meaty, the kind that actors gravitate towards."
"Firing on all cylinders, this film is reminiscent of Adaptation and Birdman."
- The Black List
IPHIGENIA AT AULIS
Liz Livingston to play Iphigenia in Iphigenia at Aulis.
"No matter how painful or joyful, it is our duty as artists to tell the truth, a thing the Greeks, the legends, the heroes often did so well. They delivered the truth. We hope tonight we fulfill these artistic obligations and if we don't, what does anything matter?"
- Ryan Ortega, Director
Liz Livingston as Desdemona, drawn by Joan Chiverton . The Drilling Company, 2018
"The Folio is Female - Great Women of Shakespeare"
Monday, April 23 in Bryant Park
Liz Livingston plays Desdemona in this collection of scenes performed for Shakespeare's Birthday and to kick of the 2018 Drilling Company Summer Season. "In this cultural moment of Pantsuit Nation, #MeToo and real-life heroes like Emma Gonzales, it has become abundantly clear that the future is female... and so is the Folio. Shakespeare reminds us that the purpose of theater is 'to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature,' to examine what's already there."
-Director Jane Bradley, Broadway World
Spring 2018: Liz Livingston to Direct an episode of "We are the Homefront," a project conceived by Lauren Cusker and produced by Spirit Fox Productions.
"Homefront is unique in that it creates a platform from which real words from real people can be heard. When my brother was activ eduty, I oftentimes just wanted someone to talk to. I think that our project is creating that space."
-Liz Livingston
Homefront is a verbatim theater project presenting the stories of military spouses. Set to release May 28, 2018.