Director

What makes a family? In Wolf Play, we meet a young boy who feels more connection to wolves than people: “Wolves suck at being alone. Wolves need family.” The play incorporates humor, puppetry, and sharply written dialogue in this tale of people grappling with questions of identity, trust, and parenthood.


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Wolf Play

The Ashby Stage

Head on over to Truvy’s Beauty Salon, where the curlers are hot and the gossip is hotter! Nestled in small-town Louisiana, it’s the place to go for the best ‘dos, the best advice (whether you asked for it or not), and the best friends you’ll ever meet. You’ll join Truvy, the irascible Ouiser, protective M’Lynn and her soon-to-be-wed daughter Shelby, and a host of other memorable women as they banter, bicker, and bond through the years, forging a sisterhood strong enough to carry them through all of life’s triumphs and tragedies.

Steel Magnolias

Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts

Elizabeth Carter is a longtime SF Bay Area theatremaker.  Most recently she directed Wolf Play for Shotgun Players. Her recent regional directing credits include Confederates (St. Louis Rep), Steel Magnolias (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley),  and past productions Every 28 Hours Plays and A Place To Belong (A.C.T Conservatory), Stoop Stories (Aurora Theatre Co.), Sweat (Center Rep), associate director on the ripple the wave that carried me home (Berkeley Rep/Goodman Theatre) and assistant director How I Learned What I Learned (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). She directed the ground-breaking 2020 virtual King Lear, (SF Shakespeare Festival), Feel the Spirit (Shotgun Players/Colt Couer NYC). Elizabeth’s for colored girls… was awarded Broadway World’s Best Play. Her directorial film debut Bottled Spirits won Best Narrative Film at the London Pan African Film Festival. She is a recipient of the Bridging the Gap Grant and is a 2019 alum of Director’s Lab West.  Elizabeth was the inaugural SDCF Lloyd Richards New Futures Resident Director at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and a 2023 Lucas Arts Fellow. Elizabeth started her career as an actor with Cal Shakes (Richard II, Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet) and returned in 2016 (Othello, You Never Can Tell) and taught in their summer conservatory.

Elizabeth Carter

Director

Events

Upcoming events

12 - 29 Sep, 2024

As You Like It | Cal Shakes · California Shakespeare Theater

Past events

Sep 2 - Oct 1, 2023

Wolf Play · Shotgun Players

Jun 7 - Jul 2, 2023

Steel Magnolias · TheatreWorks Silicon Valley

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