Original
Works
All Original Works are conceived, created, and directed by Elizabeth Mozer
The asylum project
A one-woman play based on patients of the Binghamton State Hospital. During the course of the play I embody 5 different people who are intimately connected to the asylum, sharing their experiences through verbal and physical text. The characters are drawn from real individuals and events, personal interviews, historical research and my imagination.
https://newplayexchange.org/script/2041488/the-asylum-project
castle on the hill
This play grew out of my one woman play The Asylum Project. It is a full length work with characters drawn from real individuals and events, personal interviews, historical research and my imagination. The play is unfused with movement that I called patientography.
Castle on the Hill
Natural Causes
Natural Causes, conceived, devised, and directed by Elizabeth Mozer, is a theatre composition based on the work of environmental activists, woven together with song and movement. The piece draws heavily on direct interviews with environmental activists, many of which were personally conducted by Mozer herself. This work was realized by Binghamton University students who worked with Mozer to workshop and develop the piece in a class setting.
A studio performance of Natural Causes took place at Binghamton University in May 2024. Selections of Natural Causes were performed again as an Institute for the Advanced Studies in the Humanities presentation, at Binghamton 2 Degrees: Live at Confluence Park, and in the worldwide festival Climate Change Theatre Action.
Natural Causes was used as a template for making original theatre rooted in environmental advocacy at the Greene Middle School, where Mozer led workshops as a teaching artist.
the august 9th project
The August 9th Project is based on actual accounts of atomic radiation victims in Japan and the U.S. Text is drawn from the book American Ground Zero: The Secret Nuclear War by Carole Gallagher and the film White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a documentary by Steven Okazaki.
blood and honey
Blood & Honey expresses a journey of intimate relationships in ordinary and extraordinary circumstances magnifying the consequences of imposed social roles and taboos of generations past, present and future.
A place at the table
A movement theatre piece about hunger, satedness and the perils of military indoctrination.
Fields are burning
Fields are Burning brings to life the memories of Pearl who grew up in a rural Southern town as the civil rights movement began taking hold in other parts of the country. The work weaves together her intimate experiences of love, racism and family within the magical nature of memory.
the crow
A movement theatre piece based on the poem “The Crow” by Antonio Vallone.
broken open
A physical theatre piece about three sisters whose worlds of fantasy and reality daringly play together, inspired by the play GUM written by Karen Hartman
the door
A movement theatre work inspired by what’s seen and what’s hidden and how we choose to respond to each.
Preemptive strike
Based on the essay “Bush Proposes Preemptive War” by Wallace Shawn