Elizabeth Boag

Elizabeth Boag

Norah Tussock

Elizabeth completed an honours degree in English and French (gaining a distinction in spoken French) before training in Music Theatre at the Mountview Conservatoire in London.

In 2005 she was selected from over 10,000 applicants to perform in the inaugural Old Vic New Voices 24Hour Plays working with writer Mike Bartlett and director James Grieve. She made her screen debut alongside Michael Gambon in Joe’s Palace by Stephen Poliakoff (Prix Italia, Emmy Award) and followed that with Stuart: A Life Backwards with Tom Hardy and Benedict Cumberbatch.

Elizabeth has made films in London, LA, Paris and Yorkshire, premiered plays in the UK and the US, and continues to collaborate on stage and screen as an actress and filmmaker. She is also a founding director of Scarborough Film Festival.

Theatre includes: Deals & Deceptions, Same Time Next Year (Esk Valley Theatre); Family Album (SJT); Caroline’s Kitchen, Invincible (Original Theatre/UK tour/New York); Women in Power (NST/Oxford Playhouse); Break of Noon (Finborough); A Hero’s Welcome, Confusions, Arrivals & Departures (SJT/UK tour/New York); Roundelay (SJT/UK tour); Farcicals (SJT/UK tour/New York); Superjohn, Paper Wings/Resolutions (Firehouse Creative Productions); Private Thoughts in Public Places (Casa Festival/Oval House); Stella (Southwark Playhouse/US premiere); I Confess, The Journey (Southwark Playhouse); Kiddly-Fiddler on the Roof (Edinburgh Festival); 21st Century: Which Art In Heaven? (Soho Theatre); God, Waiting for the Ghost (Theatre503); The Book by Mike Bartlett (Trafalgar Studios/Nabokov); Astronaut Wives’ Club (Old Vic New Voices); Las Meninas (National Gallery); Comfort – 24 hour plays (Old Vic); Lazard’s Gambit (Nabokov/Old Red Lion); Violent B (Royal Court Writers Showcase).

TV includes: Emmerdale (ITV); Silent Witness, Casualty, Doctors (BBC).

Film includes: My Friend Hugo, City Girls, Love Bird, Utopia, The Agency, A Final Truth, A Stitch in Time, I Only Have Eyes For You, Motto, Something Old, Metro 7 BIS, Strangers, One in a Million, Juan, Jack Malchance, All That Remains, One Day French, Chasing Robert Barker, Scrawl, Mission London, Jam, Cross-Eyed Waltz.

Radio: Emile Zola: Money (BBC Radio 4); Sixty by Sixty (SJT); This is Hoxton (Hoxton FM); Natural Born Caretakers, Picnic at Hanging Rock (BBC Radio 3).