Elizabeth Whitney
"Sure, Whitney is a skilled comedienne with a Kristen Chenowith voice and excellent timing, but she's also thought provoking and insightful."
— NYTheatre.com
» Featured in GO Magazine's 100 Women We Love
Class of 2009!
» Featured artist on
nouveau*queer.com
» Featured artist in Bitch Magazine, 2008
» Curve Magazine Lesbian Theatre Awards, 2005 & 2006
» Best Solo Performance, Columbus National Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival, 2004 & 2006
» Best Performance, Fresh Fruit Festival, 2004
Elizabeth Whitney should have been cast as the original Wonder Girl, but didn’t have an agent at the time, and somehow, Debra Winger got the part. So she honed her amazonian skills and got busy making her own performance work on gender and popular culture. Along the way she delivered singing telegrams in Florida and North Dakota, crooned jazz standards in Southern France, taught yoga to seven year olds in Utah, danced for dollars in South Carolina, and sang solo in the church choir in Alabama. After completing graduate work in performance studies, she became academic-ish, and now she writes, teaches, and tours her performance work to schools, galleries, and performance and theatre festivals all over the place. She is affiliated with The Dramatists Guild, The Fund for Women Artists, The International Center for Women Playwrights, The National Communication Association, and Performance Studies International.