Elizabeth Bruce
Elizabeth Bruce, co-founder of Sanctuary Theatre and The Performing Knowledge Project, is an educator, theatre artist, and novelist who has worked with children and artists for over 30 years. She has long led the Multidisciplinary Arts Program at CentroNía, and now serves as Community Arts Producer. She has received several grants from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities and Poets & Writers, Inc., and founded the Women Artists/Women Healing series. Her debut novel, And Silent Left the Place—published by Washington Writers’ Publishing House—received distinctions from the Texas Institute of Letters, ForeWord Magazine, Small Press Distributors, and The Montserrat Review. She has studied with novelists Richard Bausch, John McNally, Lee K. Abbott and Janet Peery; her publishing credits include Paycock Press’ Gravity Dancers, Washington Post, Lines + Stars and others. A member of Playwrights Forum II, her authored/co-authored scripts have been staged at Adventure Theatre, Washington Ethical Society, Howard University and Sanctuary Theatre, as well as Carpetbag Theatre as the Lucas Award winner. She performed most recently with Solas Nua and Sanctuary at Capital Fringe Festivals, and holds a BA in English from Colorado College. She was a presenting poet at both the Closing Event for the Fortune’s Bones Project at the University of Maryland and Collective Voices’ Poetry Extravaganza honoring Dr. King, and has had fiction readings at AWP, The Writers’ Center, and other bookstores and book fairs. Legal Tender, based on selections of Elizabeth’s flash fiction collection-in-progress, Fifty Dollars, was performed as prose in performance at the 2013 Capital Fringe Festival. She writes theatre reviews for Maryland Theatre Guide and Broadway World, and will be a featured presenter at Performetry @ BloomBars in June 2014. performingknowledge.org; sanctuarytheatre.org