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ELISE STONE (Resident Artist, Vita) (she/her) (Vita)
Elise has performed more than 200 roles on the New York stage
including the celebrated world premier productions of Eric Bentley’s and Darius Milhaud, Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her
Children (Mother Courage), the world premiere of Bentley’s adaption of Wedekind’s LuLu (LuLu), and as the lead in Eve Adamson’s
production in both the US and South America of Luigi Pirandello’s
Six Characters in Search of an Author all at the Jean Cocteau Repertory where she was a
resident artist for two decades. Selected as one of NYTheatre.com’s people of year, Ms.
Stone was singled out as “one of New York’s most highly regarded and compelling artists.”
She is a recipient of Italy’s Premio Maschera di Sipario Award for her performances in plays
by Eduardo diFilippo and Luigi Pirandello. On the mainstage for Phoenix, she was most
recently seen Off Broadway as Sonja in Crime & Punishment and Aisling in Drinks with Dead
Poets. Ms. Stone has appeared in such plays the American premiers of Glyn Maxwell’s The
Lifeblood, Broken Journey, Wolfpit and the World Premier of his Agamemnon Home. Other
roles include Mrs. Antrobus in The Skin of Our Teeth, Mary in Robert Patrick's Judas, Nora
in The Cult Play, Elmire in Tartuffe, Kath in Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Tekla in The Creditors.
Other acting credits include regional theatre, 昀椀lm, television, voice over and cabaret. Elise
is over the moon to be working with her long time collaborators, Karen Case Cook and
Craig Smith. Deepest gratitude to all of you for being in the audience and supporting live
performance.
