“The funniest actress on the East Coast!”
—Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal
“Aspenlieder wears Maureen’s vulnerability visibly, though without apologizing for her character’s nastiness. It’s a lovely, unstrained performance, never better than when Maureen entertains that unheard-of phenomenon, a prospective lover.”
—The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Ben Brantley, The New York Times
“Elizabeth directed and starred in the hilarious and heartbreaking story. Elizabeth’s superb comedic and passionate acting in her portrayal of a single mother's idiosyncratic journey of self-discovery is hilarious and heartbreaking. Elizabeth's solo performance is astonishing as she presses all your emotional buttons.”
—Bad Dates, Stephen Sorokoff, Broadway World
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Elizabeth has performed in over 50 plays and voiced dozens of commercial and animation roles in Canada and in the US. She won Boston's prestigious Elliot Norton award for her solo performance in the comedy Bad Dates (by Theresa Rebeck) and a 2019 Berkie Award for best supporting actor in The Waverly Gallery (by Kenneth Lonergan).
Acting
Upcoming roles: The Cake by Bekah Brunstetter (Della), Silver Thorne Theatre, Greenfield, MA. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare (Titania), Shakespeare & Company, Lenox, MA.
Elizabeth has performed in over thirty plays with Shakespeare & Company both modern, world premiers and Shakespeare. Favorite roles with Shakespeare & Company include HIR (Paige) by Taylor Mack, The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Maureen) by Martin McDonagh, Mother of the Maid (originated the role of The Lady of Court before it's run with Glenn Close at The Publick, NYC), King Lear (Regan with John Douglas Thompson as Edmund), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Hermia), Winter's Tale (Hermione), The Merry Wives of Windsor (Mistress Ford), Rough Crossing by Tom Stoppard (Natasha), Vanya Sasha, Masha & Spike (Masha) to name a few.
Regional Theatre: Angels in America (Boston Theatre Works), Othello (Boston Theatre Works), Bad Dates (Merrimack Rep) as well as Barrington Stage Company, Great Barrington Public Theatre, Old Castle Theatre Company, Mixed Company, and Berkshire Playwright's Lab.
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Theatre
FILM ROLES: Cold Wallet (director Cutter Hodierne); I’m Not Him (director Steve Grimaldi) award-winning feature (list awards) starring John Palladino, distributed by Amazon Prime; Sproutland (Academy Award winning director Cynthia Wade), winner of 13 Awards including Best Short and Southern Shorts Award of Excellence for Individual Achievement of Acting: Elizabeth Aspenlieder; Pennyland feature (director Billy Hahn), Trigger Finger short (director Mark Maurino), Seriously Twisted feature (directed by The Heather Brothers) distributed by Amazon Prime.
As an acting coach for the last decade, Elizabeth works with students of all levels of acting including audition prep materials, monologue and scene work both modern and classical works.