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Elizabeth is a Chicago-based actor and musician originally from Minnesota. She has performed in a wide variety of plays, musicals, improv, and concerts.

Elizabeth is a classically-trained pianist and a self-taught accordionist. She also plays acoustic guitar, and the occasional melodica and tin whistle. She is one of two accordionists in Mucca Pazza, a celebrated music ensemble fusing marching band, street theatre, and rock 'n' roll. As a mezzo-soprano/alto vocalist, she sings in a variety of musical theatre, jazz, folk, and singer-songwriter styles. With a wide range of musical experiences, she has accompanied choir concerts, led acapella groups, sang with jazz combos, hosted cabarets, produced her own music, and taught piano and accordion lessons.
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Elizabeth is a graduate of Loyola University Chicago with a B.A. in Theatre. She works in marketing at Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music, and is an ensemble member of Strawdog Theatre Company.

Monstrous - Impostors Theatre Co.

Monstrous - Impostors Theatre Co.

Mucca Pazza (band)

Mucca Pazza (band)

Once (Girl) - dir. Kelly Howe

Once (Girl) - dir. Kelly Howe

Photo by Joe Mazza, Brave Lux.

As You Like It (Jaques) - dir. Mark Lococo

As You Like It (Jaques) - dir. Mark Lococo

Photo by Joe Mazza, Brave Lux.

The Old Man and the Old Moon - dir. Emily Ritger

The Old Man and the Old Moon - dir. Emily Ritger

Photo by Joe Mazza, Brave Lux.

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Mucca Pazza live on WGN

Accordion

August 2026

Threepenny Opera Suite by Kurt Weill

Accordion

Northwestern University Bienen School of Music - March 2026

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MUCCA PAZZA

Chicago's spectacularly theatrical marching band-inspired ensemble;

spreading chaotic joy since 2004. Seen recently at Edgewater Music Festival, the Obama Presidential Center, the Krannert Center, and on WGN!

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