Elizabeth Kirkland(I)
- Actress
Elizabeth is an actor, Co-Artistic Director for Staircase Theatre, emerging producer, Alley Theatre board member, puppeteer and mom. Liz has been acting for the past thirteen years and has a BFA with Distinction from the University of Calgary. She is known for known for Maintenance Man (2012) and Hiccups (2010). Past theatre highlights include Three Stories Up (Alley Theatre), Corleone: A Shakespearean Godfather (Classic Chic Productions and Pacific Theatre), Cocktails at Pam's (Staircase Theatre), A Christmas Carol (5 consecutive years as Belle) and Much Ado About Nothing (Hero) both for Theatre Calgary, Nordost (The Troika Collective), The Good of the Sun (Liz's company, Good Theatre and Vancouver Fringe 2014), and Alley Theatre's Wicked Shorts which she acted in and co-produced for the 2010 Vancouver Fringe Festival. It won the Cultchivating The Fringe Award and went on to be remounted at The Cultch in 2011. As a puppeteer she tours a show about juvenile idiopathic arthritis to schools throughout the lower mainland for the Cassie and Friends Society for Juvenile Arthritis and Other Rheumatic Diseases. Liz recently toured The Green Wanderer throughout the lower mainland for The King Matt Theatre. Liz is the mother to the incredibly spirited Daphne and to the two year old new chatterbox, Jake.