ELIZABETH BUNCH
Biography
Elizabeth Bunch is an actor, director, and teacher now based in Houston Texas. She graduated NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and lived and worked in New York City for over a decade. In 2002 she appeared in Frame 312 at the Alley theater and after continuing to perform there as a guest artist, she joined the acting company as a full time member in 2006. In that time Elizabeth has appeared in over 100 full scale productions and numerous workshops and productions in development. Most notable performances include Annie Wilkes in Misery, Girl on the Train, Little Comedies, Noises Off, Twelfth Night, Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion, Rosalind in As You Like it, Clybourne Park, Doubt, Proof, 39 Steps, Dracula, August Osage County, Elephant Man, and Our Town.Some of her favorite experiences at the Alley include collaborating with Edward Albee in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. She performed a solo show about a female drone pilot in Grounded. Elizabeth served as Assistant Director for The Seafarer and Amadeus.
Before arriving in Houston, Elizabeth performed with the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, The Denver Center, and national tours. She worked with many New York Theaters including, Playwrights Horizons, Keen Company, The Flea, Lincoln Center’s Centers Directors Lab, The Public Theater’s new play festival, HB Playwrights, and NY Stage and Film.
Elizabeth performed as part of the Breadloaf Theater Company in Vermont as Juliet in Romeo & Juliet, Streetcar Named Desire, Measure for Measure, Arcadia, Big Love, and Street Car Named Desire. She also directed a workshop of Harold Pinter’s Ashes to Ashes. As part of this company Elizabeth taught at Middlebury’s Breadloaf School of English. As faculty there she performed while also teaching and guiding graduate and PH D students.
Elizabeth has also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Houston for seven years. She taught Actors, Playwrights and Theater Education majors. later she returned as director for Circle Mirror Transformation and Twelfth Night.