is a theatre practitioner (actor, director, movement director, dramaturg), poet and writer, collage artist, installation artist, and teaching artist — and no stranger to a hyphen.
Elizabeth Houck-Zozaya
Elizabeth is a multidiscplinary artist and community collaborator from and living in Columbia, South Carolina (East Cherokee and Congaree land). As an expression of existing as a queer mixed Mexican-American femme survivor in the South, Elizabeth’s artistic work and collaborations focus on the relationship between our Self, our experiences, and our environments. In all disciplines and desires, Elizabeth co-creates spaces to imagine and manifest a world filled with radical joy, growth and connection.
Elizabeth’s films have been shown at Frameline International LGBT Film Festival in San Francisco, TWIST: Seattle Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival, Twin Cities Film Festival, North Carolina Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, and Indie Grits Film Festival, among others.
Whenever possible, Elizabeth is grateful for any chance to bask in sunshine, watch something in a dark theatre or theater, and dabble ever deeper in garden design and herbalism.
Recent and favorite credits include:
Acting — Theatre: Down in the Holler by Val Dunn, Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play, She Kills Monsters, The Women of Lockerbie, ‘night, Mother. Film: 50% (short), Witch (feature).
Directing — Theatre: The Laramie Project, Stop Kiss by Diana Son, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds. Film: Devil’s Trap, Ghost_Girl.
Poetry — Enter stage left, during the blackout (published in Writing in the Queer Archive chapbook); From Under the Magnolia; Bless Your Heart (published in Bible Belt Queers Zine).
Installation — La Casita; From Under the Magnolia.
Movement direction — Hadestown at Dreher High School; Presente Sin Miedo (devised work).