Movement Workshop Group

Mixing Dance and Theater for a New Kind of Performance
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Eliza Lay                                     
Artistic Associate
acts, dances, choreographs and instructs in these disciplines.  Most recently In New York she has choreographed and performed in Blessed Unrest's CoMotion, acted in Putting It Together at Manhattan Theatersource with Alaina Hammond and performed in Snow White with Catherine Bay.
A graduate of Skidmore College in Theater (Acting Prize), Eliza has performed in Washington DC, Boston and New York. Acting Credits Include: Love-Lies-Bleeding, Dancing at Lughnasa (Way Theater Artists); Sacred Hearts, Flesh and Blood (Zeitgeist Stage Co); Gorilla Man (Boston Theaterworks); Ariel in The Tempest, The Autumn Hours, Yellow Ribbons, Our Hearts as Fiction, The  Ocean Room, Under Her Umbrella (11:11 Productions); Fathers and Sons, The Shoemaker's Remarkable Wife (Stanslavsky Theater Studio); Phaedra in Phaedra's Love (The Objective).

Dance Credits Include: Impossible Things (Imaginary Beasts); Dust to Dust, Moontides in 23,149 Parts (The Movement Workshop Group).  She has appeared in several festivals including The Boston Theater Marathon, FeverFest, and SLAMBoston (winning play).  Eliza has been a company member with 11:11 Productions, The Stanislavsky Theater Studio and Way Theater Artists (co-Founder).  Eliza teaches acting and movement to children and adults, most recently, privately, at Westport Playhouse and The New York Film Academy.

Of Eliza's acting The Boston Globe as said: "Something about Lay's acting makes you forget that she's acting."