Elizabeth Whyte is a Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin native who now resides in Co. Wexford, Ireland. Her theatre credits include The Irish and How They Got That Way By Frank Mc Court (US tour), Nightingale and not the Lark (Janet Maslin), Irish Repertory Theatre Rafferty Rescues the Moon (Narrator/Queen), Synchronicity Space, NY Grease (Marty) and Shirley Valentine (M.Majors/Jeanette), Raven Theatre, Dublin, Macbeth (1st Witch), Philadelphia Here I Come! (Katie), National Theatre Productions, Dublin, Eclipsed (Mandy) Worcester Forum Theater, MA which won Moss Hart Award. Boston credits include: Lady Windermere's Fan (Lyric Stage), Down The Flats (Mary and Lizzie), Lament for Arthur Cleary with the Sugan Theatre, Joyriders (New Phoenix Theatre), Nightingale and not the Lark (Poets Theatre), Moon for the Misbegotten, Equus and The Cherry Orchard (Harvard/Radcliffe). Elizabeth also took part in BloomsDay on Broadway readings in Symphony Space, NY. Film/TV includes Fairy Tale in New York,(Ewe Production Independent), The City (ABC), Giving Tongue (BBC), The Governor (ITV), The Olde Curiosity Shoppe (Disney) and Glenroe (RTE). She trained through American Repertory Theatre company and the Moscow Art Theatre Summer School while studying Arts and Literature at Harvard Extension in Cambridge, MA.

In September 1996, Elizabeth co-founded Theatre Nua along with her friend, freelance Producer, Aideen Kane. The company dedicated itself, for a number of years, to the promotion and production of works by new Irish playwrites, performed by new as well as established Irish talent in the New York area. Succesful readings included: Danti Dan (Gina Moxley), Red Roses and Petrol (Joeseph O' Connor), Long Black Coat (John Waters) and Grace in America (Antoine O'Flatharta). At the Guinness Fleadh Festival in June 1997, Theatre Nua performed 'Scrap Ireland' a comical outlook on Ireland written by Elizabeth Whyte which featured sketches on Mary Robinson, the Eurovision, Housewife of the Year and the Celtic Tiger economic boom that Ireland is currently experiencing today.

Elizabeth's penchant for comic writing led to one of her more memorable characters: the infamous Sister Hip. Sister was a rather unusual nun, one of whose many memorable catchphrases is: "God loves to party too!!" In that spirit, Sister brought the word to New York and further afield in venues such as The Knitting Factory, Fez, and at her (anti) folk masses at the downtown venue of Swifts.

In 2001, Elizabeth featured in the Irish Repertory Theatre's critically acclaimed production of Brendan Behan's "The Hostage", and produced a reading of her play "Simply Lucia" in the Irish Arts Center in June. She also took part in several other readings and festivals before making the move back across the Atlantic to Ireland, where she is now based.

After three years working as Administrator for Rough Magic Theatre, one of the leading creative forces in Irish drama, Elizabeth headed South - to Co. Wexford. There, she currently works as Director of the recently re-vamped Wexford Arts Centre, the Southeast's hub of artistic activity. Although she has taken a break from the boards, she has taken to the role of producer and arts administrator with verve. recently produced Tales from Rainwater Pond, written and performed by Billy Roche, which had a successful run at the Wexford Arts Centre and before performing to New York audiences as the Irish Repertory Theatre, as part of the 1st Irish festival last year. For the NYT review of Elizabeth's production, see here.

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