WHAT’S ON
Since 2024, Gerrad Alex Taylor and I have led Perisphere Theater, in residence at the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD. Perisphere Theater is a Helen Hayes Award-winning professional theater based in Montgomery County, Maryland. We produce plays that examine the notion of history, focusing especially on the events, people, and points view that often get left out.
Our 2026 season includes Lauren Gunderson’s Silent Sky, directed by Susan Stroupe, and I Know How To Curse: a reblackening of shakespeare, a world premiere solo show written and performed by Gerrad Alex Taylor and directed by Nigel Semaj.
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I’m thrilled to be playing Henrietta Leavitt in Perisphere’s production of Silent Sky, by Lauren Gunderson. When a young mathematician is recruited to the Harvard Observatory to work as a human “computer” mapping the stars, she embarks on a journey to answer a troubling question: where are we in the universe? And what role will women play, in the lab, at the ballot box, and in society? Submersive Productions’ Susan Stroupe directs Lauren Gunderson’s moving, magical look at the true story of Henrietta Leavitt. Silent Sky will run January 30-February 14, 2026 at The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD.
IN THE PRESS
Read my interview with Canvas Rebel.
Listen to Gerrad and I speak with Theater District’s Dex Kinsman, outlining our vision for Perisphere Theater Company.
As Cassius in Julius Caesar, with Chris Holbert as Brutus. Photo by D.J. Corey.
ABOUT LIZZI
I am an actor, director, and teaching artist originally from the suburbs of Washington, D.C. In 2024, I became co-artistic director of Perisphere Theater along with my partner, Gerrad Alex Taylor. My directing credits include Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh and Hazardous Materials (Perisphere Theater), A Christmas Carol and The Tempest (Chesapeake Shakespeare Company), and This Historic Night (Seed Productions/Capital Fringe). I am a Touchstone Company member of Baltimore’s Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, where favorite roles include Electra (The Oresteia adapted by Ellen McLaughlin), Viola (Twelfth Night), and Anne Boleyn (Anne of the Thousand Days). Other regional credits include Collected Stories (Peter’s Alley Theatre) and the original Alexandra Petri play Never Never (Capital Fringe). I have taught acting throughout the DC area and Shakespeare at Washington College. I hold a BFA in Theatre from NYU/Stella Adler and an MA in Acting from East 15, where I participated in residencies at Shakespeare’s Globe in London and GITIS in Moscow. In my free time, I enjoy bourbon, detective novels, and buying too many clothes.
