(she/her/hers)

SDCF Lloyd Richards New Futures Resident Artist

Assistant Director, How I Learned What I Learned

Director, Films for the People

Behind-the-Scenes Storyteller, The Cymbeline Project

Elizabeth Carter is a SF Bay Area actor/director who most recently directed Stoop Stories at the Aurora Theatre Co., as well as the virtual production of Feel the Spirit for Shotgun Players and Colt Coeur. Her directing includes San Francisco Shakespeare Festival’s 2020 groundbreaking virtual King Lear and 2021 Pericles Episode 3, Bondage (Honorable Mention for the Relentless Award) with AlterTheatre, Every 28 Hours Plays and A Place to Belong with American Conservatory Theatre, for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf… (Broadway World Best Local Play and TBA nominee Best Ensemble) with African American Shakespeare Co., and Participants (TBA Best Anthology) for TheatreFirst. She has directed numerous productions for California Shakespeare Theater Conservatory and has served as the Associate Director of the Theatre Department at Ruth Asawa School of the Arts in San Francisco. She is a recipient of the Bridging the Gap Grant and a Director’s West 2019 Alum. She is a graduate of Mills College. Elizabeth is the Inaugural SDCF Lloyd Richards New Futures Resident Artist with Oregon Shakespeare Festival.