Elizabeth Parrish
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Elizabeth "Betsy" Parrish[1] (February 10, 1925 – December 16, 2022)[2] was an American actress, singer and acting teacher.
Career
[edit]Parrish was long affiliated with the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. Other teaching credits include: Circle in the Square, High School of Performing Arts, Metropolitan Opera Studio, Yale Drama School (Associate Professor Adjunct), American Academy of Dramatic Art, and the Eugene O'Neill International Theatre Institute.[2] She was a founding member of the Harold Clurman Laboratory Theatre Company, having performed in Uncle Vanya, Hot L Baltimore, and Macbeth.[1]
In 2004, she appeared in a one-woman New York musical revue, Moments of Being, with Betsy.[3] In 2013, aged 88, she teamed up with Canadian dancer and choreographer Margie Gillis to create a piece based on the poems of Emily Dickinson called Bulletins from Immortality, directed by Paola Styron, which they performed nationally and internationally.[2]
In 2019 and 2020, the nonagenarian Parrish performed her cabaret show, "Every Soul's a Cabaret", at, among other venues, the Martha's Vineyard Playhouse (Massachusetts) and the Pangea World Theater (Minneapolis, Minnesota), respectively.[1]
Acting credits
[edit]Broadway & Off-Broadway
[edit]- La Cage aux Folles, as Jacqueline (1983 thru 1987)
- Deathtrap as Helga ten Dorp; succeeded Marian Winters (1978 thru 1982)
- Keep It In the Family, as standby for roles of Betsy Jane and Daisy Brady[4]
- Pickwick, as Mrs. Leo Hunter and as understudy for role of Rachel (1965)
- Riverwind as Louise Sumner (1962)
- Little Mary Sunshine as Mme. Ernestine von Liebedich (1959)
- Johnny Johnson as French Nurse (1956)
Feature films
[edit]- See You in the Morning (1989) as "Group Therapy Patient"
- Orphans (1987) as "Rich Woman"
Television
[edit]- Law & Order (1994) as "Judge Sally Norton"
- Kate & Allie (1989) as "Evelyn"
- The Edge of Night (soap opera) as "Zelda Moffett" (1981) and as "Buffy Revere" (1982)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Every Soul's a Cabaret: Betsy Parrish Makes Musical Magic at Pangea". Theater Pizzazz. January 15, 2020.
- ^ a b c "Elizabeth Parrish". Stella Adler Studio of Acting. Retrieved April 18, 2024.
- ^ "Moments of Being, with Betsy (Closed May 30, 2004)". theatermania.com. 8 March 2023.
- ^ Keep It In the Family at Internet Broadway Database
External links
[edit]- Elizabeth Parrish at IMDb
- Elizabeth Parrish at the Internet Broadway Database
- Elizabeth Parrish at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
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