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Elizabeth Carter is an actor/director in the San Francisco Bay Area.

As a long time Bay Area actor, Elizabeth Carter’s theatre credits includeYOU NEVER CAN TELL, OTHELLO, AS YOU LIKE IT,  ROMEO AND JULIET, RICHARD II,  for California Shakespeare Theater, THE CRUCIBLE andTHE CONVERT for Marin Theatre Co. where she was nominated for both San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award and Theatre Bay Area Awards, FENCES, JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE at Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, NICKEL AND DIMED  at TheatreWorks, MERRY WIVES OF WINSOR for SF Shakespeare Festival and THE BLACK RIDER at Shotgun Players. At the Aurora Theatre Co. she has been seen in TROUBLE IN MIND, WITTENBURG, where she was nominated for a SFBATCC Award and THE HEIR APPARENT and most recently the acclaimed EUREKA DAY!, winner of the Theatre Bay Area Award for Best World Premiere and one of the SF Chronicle Top Ten plays of 2018. She continues to dive into new works with The Ground Floor at Berkekely Rep.

 Although having directed in numerous educational settings, her professional directing debut came with BONDAGE by Star Finch ,an honorable mention for the Relentless Award, for Alter Theatre. With much acclaim the production was remounted at ACT’s Costume Shop the following year. She followed that with PARTICIPANTSand BETWEEN US for TheatreFirst which won a Theatre Bay Area Award for Best Anthology, EVERY 28 HOURSfor American Conservatory Theatre, as well as workshopped and directed A PLACE TO BELONG by Marisela Treviño Orta for their Community Youth Arts Project, for African American Shakespeare Co. Ntozake Shange’s FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF…which won Best Local Play from Broadway World, and ANTIGONICK for Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts as well as many other plays for California Shakespeare Theatre’s Summer Conservatory.

Elizabeth is the recipient of the Bridging the Gap Grant from Shotgun Players.