Ms. Spicer was awarded Best Director and Best Play “Donnie” awards in 2003 by the Herald Tribune critic Naomi Donson for her production of FOOLS. In 2004 Ms. Spicer accepted the Royal Palm Players’ “Muses” award for Outstanding Performing Arts Company by the Arts and Culture Alliance of Venice, Florida.
In the 2001-02 Atlanta, Georgia theatre season, Ms. Spicer directed MARIETTA: THE SOAP! for the Square Globe Theatre, MORT at Georgia State University, HARD TIMES at Theatrical Outfit and BELLS ARE RINGING at the Stage Door – all while teaching acting at Kennesaw State University. In 2000, Ms. Spicer staged the top grossing, highly acclaimed FIVE WOMEN WEARING THE SAME DRESS by Alan Ball at Theatre in the Square in Georgia.
Ms. Spicer is proud to be the founding Producing Director of Bunbury Repertory Theatre in Louisville, Kentucky, where she served for 10 years. There, she also served as Director of Theatre with Louisville Collegiate. She is a noted fund-raiser and proud of her Kentucky roots. Ms. Spicer holds a B.G.S. from the University of Kentucky and an M.F.A. in Acting and Directing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. As an actress she has appeared in more than 150 plays, films, commercials and documentaries. Most recently she appeared with Faye Dunaway and Lea Thompson in the NBC mini-series A WILL OF THEIR OWN. Ms. Spicer can be seen on Kentucky Educational Television as heroine Alice Lloyd in the story of Ms. Lloyd’s life, the internationally released film THE MIRACLE ON CANEY CREEK. Ms. Spicer is a member of the Actors Equity Association.
Ms. Spicer is also a published author and photographer, penning Louisville’s popular entertainment, LOU-AH-VUL: THE SOAP! for five sold-out years. She credits her studies with Spalding Gray as a catalyst for new works, including the film of her short screenplay, THE MAN WHO WOULD BE QUEEN, which took a third place award at the 1995 Chicago International Film and Video Festival. She also penned MARIETTA: THE SOAP! which enjoyed a 7 week sold-out run in Georgia at the Square Globe. Her play, co-authored with Alan Litsey, titled BOCA GRANDE: THE SOAP! debuted April 1, 2004 at Royal Palm. Ms. Spicer is recently finished a new play with comedian Keith McGill. It is titled THE DOG SHOW. The play has been designed to benefit humane societies in the U.S.A.
2009 welcomes the debut of ENGLEWOOD: THE SOAP! penned by Ms. Spicer. You can read the fictional comic
series in THE ENGLEWOOD REVIEW.
Elizabeth Spicer
elizabeth@paradiseactingcompany.com 941-830-1449
