Liz Fentress is an award-winning playwright with extensive experience as an actor, director, and teacher in professional, community, and educational theatre.
NEWS
September 2024 - Celebrating THREE YEARS of Silent Writing with playwrights from across the country and around the world!!! Are you a member of the Dramatists Guild? Join Liz every Thursday morning, 9:00-11:00 CT, for Silent Writing. To register, go to the DG website and click on Events and Classes—and National Silent Writing will pop up. “Follow the prompts to find us every Thursday morning, Zooming from Wisconsin!” Liz says. “It’s like writing in a coffee shop where there are other people around and we’re all… writing! Bring your own coffee!”
September 2022 - Liz is in residence at the Tofte Lake Center at Norm’s Fish Camp in Ely, MN, working on her new full-length play Market America
July 2020 - Stages of Bloom reunion-from-around-the-world Zoom reading with (left to right, top to bottom): Liz Fentress, Brandon Anderson, K.C. Kelly, Hal Park, Suzanne Sturn, Br. Paul Vincent Niebauer, and Olivia Schleper. K.C. (New Zealand), Suzanne (California), Paul (Minnesota), and Liz (Wisconsin), met in an acting class at the University of Wisconsin in 1971.
July 2020 - Listen to the Backstage Banter podcast with Liz and Amber Turner, Producing Artistic Director of the Public Theatre of Kentucky in Bowling Green, at Liz Fentress by PTK Backstage Banter • A podcast on Anchor
November 2019 - Liz with Kiernen Callahan as Liz in the world premiere of the ensemble version of Liz’s Circus Story at Mercy Academy Theatre, Louisville
July 2019 - World premiere of Neutral Position at the Derby City Playwrights Festival at the Bard Theatre, Louisville
December 2009 - December 2018 - Liz as Edna McCarthy in The Best Christmas Pageant Ever at Stage One Family Theatre.
August 2018 - Hear an interview with Liz on her career in the theatre on the Sides Podcast w/Paul T. Carney at 006- Liz Fentress on Sides Podcast w/Paul T. Carney (podbean.com)
January 2018 - The Honey Harvest at the Little Colonel Playhouse, Peewee Valley, KY
April & October 2017 - Liz is in residence at Bak Middle School of the Arts in West Palm Beach conducting playwriting workshops.
June 2017 - Stages of Bloom at the Bunbury Theatre, Louisville
March 2017 - World premiere of Stages of Bloom at the Public Theatre of Kentucky, Bowling Green
November 2016 - Liz is at St. John’s University in Collegeville, MN, working on a production of Amahl and the Night Visitors with life-size puppets from the Little Angel Marionette Theatre in London commissioned by Queen Elizabeth II for the opening of the Queen Elizabeth Concert Hall on the Thames.
Contact Liz for copies of her plays at contactlizfentress@gmail.com