ABOUT

Liz Filios is a Philadelphia-based actor, musician and teaching artist. She is the Director of Artist Training and a company member at People's Light, a co-founder of the Bearded Ladies Cabaret, and a faculty member at the Pig Iron School for Advanced Performance Training and Arcadia University.

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After graduating from the University of Michigan Musical Theatre program, Liz traveled to Italy, where she originated the role of Perdita in IL RACCONTO D'INVERNO (THE WINTER'S TALE). She apprenticed with the Cape Town Opera Company in South Africa before moving to Philadelphia, where she made her artistic home. Some of her favorite moments on Philadelphia stages include playing Cunégonde in CANDIDE, Fosca in PASSION, Helena in MIDSUMMER: A Play With Songs, Rosalind in AS YOU LIKE IT, Portia in THE MERCHANT OF VENICE and Cinderella in INTO THE WOODS. 
 

Liz spent two years as a co-writer and host for The Sunny Side Up Show, a national children's television program on PBSKids' Sprout. Creating art for young audiences continues to be one of her passions.

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Liz has composed three full length musical scores: THE ICE PRINCESS with Brandon E. McLauren; SWEETWATER with Patricia Noonan and Sean Mahoney; and TWELFTH NIGHT O LO QUE QUIERAS with Tanaquil Márquez, Ximena Violante, Patricio Hidalgo and Robi Hagar. She has also composed for plays at the Folger Theatre, Round House Theatre, Temple University, Villanova University, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Orlando Shakespeare Festival, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Theatre Exile and DelShakes.

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Liz is a Barrymore Award Winner, an Independence Foundation Fellow, a recipient of the F. Otto Haas Award for Emerging Theatre Artist and  parent to the most amazing kid she's ever met.