Elizabeth Elias Huffman
Director, Playwright, Actor, Theatre Instructor
Alumni of Directors West
Member of SDC: Stage Directors & Choreographers Society
Member of SAG/AFTRA/ACTORS EQUITY
Elizabeth Elias Huffman is the Artistic Director of Chain Reaction Theatre. She is an acclaimed international actor, award winning director and playwright, highly regarded for her visionary and racially diverse productions. She teaches worldwide and offers online classes and coaching for actors in film, television and theatre.
Chain Reaction’s mission is to serve up theatrical culture clashes by embracing alternative methods of interpreting the classics, to devise new work in several different languages, experiment with cross-disciplinary techniques, and to collaborate on plays from an international theatrical network so that our work can be more inclusive in the conversations of our ever-growing global community.
Chain Reaction is currently relocating to the Pittsburgh area!
Projects In Development
2B or Not 2B Gertrude by Caleen Jennings
A touring production
Night Breath by Dennis Clontz
A site specific production
The Shakespeare Cafe, Let thy good times roll!
A new musical by Elizabeth Elias Huffman & William Shakespeare
The Merry Wives of Windsor...Pittsburgh, 1955!
A Shakespeare in the Park production