Elizabeth "Betsy" Parrish[1] (February 10, 1925 – December 16, 2022)[2] was an American actress, singer and acting teacher.

Career

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Parrish was long affiliated with the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. Other teaching credits include: Circle in the Square, High School of Performing Arts, Metropolitan Opera Studio, Yale Drama School (Associate Professor Adjunct), American Academy of Dramatic Art, and the Eugene O'Neill International Theatre Institute.[2] She was a founding member of the Harold Clurman Laboratory Theatre Company, having performed in Uncle Vanya, Hot L Baltimore, and Macbeth.[1]

In 2004, she appeared in a one-woman New York musical revue, Moments of Being, with Betsy.[3] In 2013, aged 88, she teamed up with Canadian dancer and choreographer Margie Gillis to create a piece based on the poems of Emily Dickinson called Bulletins from Immortality, directed by Paola Styron, which they performed nationally and internationally.[2]

In 2019 and 2020, the nonagenarian Parrish performed her cabaret show, "Every Soul's a Cabaret", at, among other venues, the Martha's Vineyard Playhouse (Massachusetts) and the Pangea World Theater (Minneapolis, Minnesota), respectively.[1]

Acting credits

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Broadway & Off-Broadway

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Feature films

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Television

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Every Soul's a Cabaret: Betsy Parrish Makes Musical Magic at Pangea". Theater Pizzazz. January 15, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c "Elizabeth Parrish". Stella Adler Studio of Acting. Retrieved April 18, 2024.
  3. ^ "Moments of Being, with Betsy (Closed May 30, 2004)". theatermania.com. 8 March 2023.
  4. ^ Keep It In the Family at Internet Broadway Database
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