Liz Solo

Theatre

Liz Solo is an accomplished stage actress and theatre creator. Her solo presentations push the boundaries of the spaces containing them - she creates sensory surround experiences for her audiences. She also experiments with performance inside of installation, and performance as ritual.

Liz Solo has been working in theatre for twenty five years, becoming a renowned theatre creator and producer. She has worked extensively with the Resource Center for the Arts Theatre Company in St. John's, Newfoundland as well as independently producing scores of original theatre works. Her most recent play Melody Neglected received developmental support from RCA with dramaturgical sessions with playwright and author Edward Riche. She is also developing the play Resistance with Roles 4 Women Theatre Company

Liz Solo is co-founder of Roles 4 Women Theatre Company with fellow theatre artist Jen Skywalker. Roles 4 Women is a developmental company dedicated to the live event and to experimentation and risk taking in performance. R4W produce timely, challenging and experimental theatre work featuring strong women's voices. Annual programming includes creative workshops, multi-media and online performances and experiments, improvisation sessions, public readings and live theatre performances. R4W are committed to developing new and innovative scripts and creating unique theatre events such as the multi-media series "Experiments in Performance". Roles 4 Women motto: making theatre where ever we can with what we have.

Liz Solo's inter-disciplinary theatre practice combines a strong performative presence with installation, virtual reality and sound. Comfortable working in different mediums - theatre, music, film and video, recording - Liz often merges them all together, as in her Trilogy of Performance Epics The Alienation of Lizzie Dyke (1994), Nature(human) in 1998 and The Museum of the Mind in 2002.

Liz's theatre and performance work has been presented in theatres, concert halls, galleries, bars, thrift stores, basements, cafes and other alternative spaces throughout the world. Her most recent work involves collaboration and performance in online virtual environments - most especially with the performance collectiveThe Second Front. She is working with online performance across multiple platforms including Second Life and World of Warcraft. (photo of Liz and Newf, the baby harp seal by Jai Me)

Liz Solo also works in comedy and has presented many comedic and standup performances - most recently creating and producing the This is Distorted series in 2009 with comedienne Sherri Levesque. Her one woman standup show Funny Things Have Happened To Me In My Life has been produced multiple times including productions with the Resource Centre for the Arts Theatre Company and the Sound Symposium. Liz often works in collaboration with other artists to create comedy work. In 1998 she teamed up with Jody Richardson and they became the duo - Chuck Art and the Amazing Liz. Their first work was The Comedy is Killing Me - 1997, a multi-media theatrical re-telling of a weekend spent with Hollywood actor Cripsin Glover.

Chuck Art and the Amazing Liz went on to write and produce four more stage works - Our Religion in 1998 - the presentation of the theory that all people belong to the same world religion; Domestic Bliss also in 1998 - the study of a relationship in decline; The Death of Theatre in 1999 - a prophetic satire of the state of the arts in Newfoundland. Most recently they presented The Birth of Theatre directed by Teri Snelgrove and produced by Resource Center for the Arts Theatre Company, 2003 - an inter-disciplinary demonstration of the theory that comedy is genetic.

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