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Elizabeth Pietrzak
Theatre Manager & Technical Director
Adjunct Instructor of Theatre Arts
Resident Lighting Designer

B. A. University of La Verne.
M. F. A. Antioch University, Los Angeles

Elizabeth Pietrzak (1991) is the Theatre Manager, Technical Director and Resident Lighting Designer at the University of La Verne Department of Theatre Arts. She oversees three facilities, supervises workstudy and student crews, teaches Stagecraft, Lighting Design, Stage Management and the Desktop Publishing for Theatre classes, does most of the lighting design and some of the scenic design for the major productions, and occasionally directs an experimental or traditoinal theatre piece. She is regularly on call as a consultant by local theatre companies regarding sound and lighting installations, and manages to juggle a very taxing and odd schedule. Beth's expertise has found her working at the The Barnstormers Theatre in New Hampshire (The oldest running summer stock theatre company in the United States), at the former Grove Shakespeare Festival, Theatre 40, Mabel Shaw Bridges Auditorium, Disneyland, Gardiner W. Spring Auditorium, Chino's 7th Street Playhouse, Long Beach Community Playhouse, Alhambra Community Theatre Group, Long Beach City College, Vanguard Theatre, Inland Pacific Ballet, Inland Valley Repertory Theatre and Mount Washington Valley Repertory Theatre in New Hampshire.

Elizabeth is also a poet, receiving her MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University, Los Angeles in June 2007. She is writing her first novel as well as a collection of poetry, and her first chapbook, "The Scent of Kisses in the Dark", was adapted into a performance by Kirsten Ogden in May 2005. She has co-authored a solo performance with Rob'n Lewis which is currently in development.