The Change

Elizabeth Sampson is an actor, director, spoken word artist, playwright, and screenwriter.

WRITER - Elizabeth’s plays include The Skeleton Flower with The Road Theatre Company Under Construction Playwriting Group 2019. Beginnings – A Barbary Coast Play commissioned by The American Conservatory Theater in 2018. The Petoskey Stones - The Road Theatre Company and The Bay Theatre Company in Annapolis, MD (chosen for the New Women’s Voices in Theatre Festival Washington DC 2015). Her short play trilogy Irish Coffee was presented in succession at the Road Theatre Company’s Summer Playwrights Festival 2013 with Kathy Baker and Perry King. It Was The Lark 2014 with Michael O’Neill. The Lighthouse in 2015. In 2016 her festival play Hell Is Empty was performed at the Road Theatre. As an actor Elizabeth has worked with numerous playwrights including Horton Foote, Wendy MacLeod, Teresa Rebeck, Craig Wright.

ACTOR Theater - Resident artist at the prestigious American Conservatory Theater company where she performed in the west coast premiere of 1918, as well as Christmas Carol, The Marriage of Figaro, and Twelfth Night. Her NYC credits include Bringing’ Home the Girl (Here Space as co-writer and actor), King of the Moon (Present Company, director). As a Los Angeles based actor she has been seen in Detachments w/ Glenn Hedley at the Loretta Theatre Company. She is a founding company member of A Noise Within where she performed in The Way of the World. More LA theater credits include The Memorandum, The Dearest of Friends, Mr. Happiness, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (w/ Carlos Bernard and Ashbury Actor’s Group) and Measure for Measure directed by Tina Packer for the Los Angeles Women’s Shakespeare Company. Elizabeth studied and performed at The Studio Theatre in Washington D.C., in 27 Wagons Full of Cotton. Other D.C. credits include, Ten Little Indians, Killing Real Estate Women.

ACTOR TV includes – PEN15, The Passage, recurring Law and Order True Crime The Menendez Murders, Aquarius, Rizzoli and Isles, Law and Order: Los Angeles, Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice, Without a Trace, E.R., Boston Legal, Strong Medicine, The Unit, Cold Case, The Pretender, Medical Mystery Investigation and a long recurring on The Brotherhood of Poland, New Hampshire. FILM includes - Last Rampage – The Escape of Gary Tison, Leaving Barstow, As Easy as Pie, Battle of the Sexes (Sundance), Disfigured, Modern Vampires (w/ Rod Steiger).

Director - Spring Dance (Pepperdine University), King of the Moon (The Groundlings LA, Present Theatre Company NYC), Assistant Director LADY, THE UNSEEN - The Road Theater LA, and staged readings too numerous to mention in and around Los Angeles.

She has been performing her short stories in the heralded Common Ground, Spark Off Rose, Melt In Your Mouth, Tell-IT!, Tree People and STORIES@THEPLAYOUSE – which she both performed with and produced, spoken word events in Los Angeles for the last 20 years. She is a graduate of the M.F.A. program at The American Conservatory Theater. She is a member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA.

This is the first time she has written and/or directed a film.