Elizabeth Nearing

Elizabeth is a director based in New Haven, CT. She is the Community Engagement Manager at Long Wharf Theatre where she's worked since 2012 in various capacities. For more information on her work at LWT go to www.longwharf.org/community. Before moving to CT, she co-founded Empty Chair Theatre Company in Arlington, VA, where she directed Shakespeare’s Richard III, Measure for Measure, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Hamlet.

Community: A Theatrical Necessity

There is no theatre without an audience. Community engagement is not just something that’s nice to do – it is essential to the creation of the art itself.