Medusa Undone

At ANTAEUS: Uncle Vanya, Top Girls, The Crucible. LA Theater: Kindertransport (LA Theatre Works), Under Milk Wood, Watch on the Rhine (Will Geer Theatricum), The Secret Garden (Lewis Family Playhouse), Romeo and Juliet (Looseleaf Theatre). Film: The Unknown (Siege Films), The Dangle (Best Short, CA Ind. Film Fest). Shannon has been a Quarterfinalist for the Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, holds a Merchant Mariner License from the U.S. Coast Guard, and, last fall, she backpacked the 211-mile John Muir Trail in 12 days! Woohoo! She is a graduate of LAMDA and Princeton University.

THEATRE: AT ANTAEUS (selected): The Seagull (Masha), Dunsinane (Gruah), Pink Mirror Dance (Nuce) & John Gabriel Borkman (Fanny). MATRIX: StickFly (Kimber) – best ensemble Ovation, LADCC, Garland & NAACP, LA Weekly nominated. ROAD – Pursued by Happiness by Keith Huff – best actress Stage Scene LA; Flower Duet by Maura Campbell – best ensemble Stage Scene LA. THEATRE GROUP OF SANTA BARBARA: The Heiress (Catherine Sloper) TV: Criminal Minds, NCIS, Grey’s Anatomy, Medium, ER, Dawson’s Creek, Joan of Arcadia, Tanner on Tanner, Love Life, & The Forgotten. FILM (leads): Double (Cannes),  Life with Fiona (Rome Int’l), Selena Incident (Cannes), & If I Could Tell You – releasing summer 2015.

Liza’s recent stage work includes Lady Macbeth at Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Yolanda/Jody in the New York and Los Angeles Premieres of Pulp Shakespeare (Cherry Lane, SoHo Playhouse, and Theatre Asylum), Lisa in Collected Stories at The Group Rep, Janetta in the World Premiere of The Boomerang Effect at the Odyssey, Lusia in A Shayna Maidel at ICT, and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing at Kentucky Shakespeare. She has been seen on television in recurring roles on The Following and Bucket & Skinner’s Epic Adventures, as well as Grey’s Anatomy, Lie to Me, Monk, Big Love, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and Alias. Her film work includes Night Eyes, Salvation Road, and Paul Verhoeven’s Zwartboek (Black Book), which was filmed in her native country, The Netherlands. She is the co-star/producer of the Bard tribute series, This Week in Shakespeare.