Elisa Simone Diaz
Height: 5'7 Venezuelan-American esdiaz130@gmail.com
Eyes: Hazel Mezzo she/they
Hair: Light Brown/Sandy Blonde
Productions
Les Misérables
Godspell
Evita
In The Heights
West Side Story
Urinetown
Songs for A New World
Damnation! The Musical.
Guys & Dolls
The Insanity of Mary Girard
Eponine
Lindsay
Ensemble/Dance Captain
Nina
Anita
Josephine Strong
Woman 2
Jessica White
Ensemble
Mary Girard U/S
Aiken Community Playhouse (ACP)
ACP
ACP
ACP
South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts (SCGSAH)
New York University (NYU) (Dir. Taylor Haven Holt)
NYU
The Tank NYC
The Heights Players
The Heights Players
Film & TV
Dissonance
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Mariah
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dir. Kareem Habal
Scene Work, Concerts, and Gigs
In The Heights (Concert)
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Wicked
Cosi Fan Tutte
Vermejo Park Ranch
Endings and Beginnings
New York Renaissance Faire*
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*Upcoming
Vanessa
Nora
Elphaba
Dorabella
Resident Musician/Singer
Performer
RAPA Certified Performer/Fae Cast
Director
ACP
ACP
Aiken Etherredge Center
SCGSAH
Ted Turner Reserves (Summer Gig)
The Green Room 42 (Dir. Taylor Haven Holt)
Tuxedo, NY (On Location)
Training
Education - New York University - Vocal Performance, Musical Theatre (2022), Renaissance Actors and Performers Academy (RAPA 2022)
Voice - Thomas Dickinson (SCGSAH*), Mary Thorne (NYU), Stan Tucker (NYU), Dr. Errik Hood (NYU)
Acting - Candace Dickinson (SCGSAH), Jim Anderson (ACP), Michael Gabriel Goodfriend (NYU), Hannah Ryan (NYU), Erin Ortman (NYU), Laura Kai Chen (NYU), David Alpert (NYU), Jen Bender (NYU)
Private Acting Coaching - Jim Anderson (ACP), Nancy Smith (SCGSAH), Daniel Murray (SCGSAH), Taylor Haven Holt (NYU), Alexander Gemignani (NYU)
Dance - Corey Burns (Burns Dance Studio), Maximilien Baud (NYU), Andrea Burns (NYU), Germaine Salsberg (NYU)
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Workshops & Masterclasses
54 Below: The King and I Workshop with Yuzi Ozeki (2015), Juilliard In Aiken with Norm Lewis (2017), Leah Partridge (2017), Reneé Fleming at the Greenville Peace Center (2017), Olga Flores (2020), Rachel Hoffman (2022)
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Skills
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), Unarmed Stage Combat Skills, Reading Music, Sight Singing/Reading, Piano, Guitar, Flute, Stage Crew Experience, Light/Set Design, Home audio and video production, Songwriting, Book writing, Devising musicals, Dialects (Multiple Spanish/Latin American, German, French, Scottish, Irish, Southern, Boston, Russian, Australian, New Zealand), Multilingual (Spanish, English, French, German, ASL), Good at learning new languages and dialects/accents, good with children, valid driver's license, good with animals.
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