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Name: Liz Kantor

Preferred Pronouns: She/her/hers


Class Year: 2018

Concentration: Neurobiology

E-mail Address: eterrykantor@college.harvard.edu

Phone Number: (914) 357-0607

House: Dunster

Room Number: W305

Artistic Field: music, dance, theatre

STATEMENT OF INTEREST
I hate piano lessons. Or, rather, I hated piano lessons until I stopped taking them when
I was ten. Every Tuesday after school for seven years I spent plunking away at the
Hardman in my living room, making sounds that could generously be described as a
New York City street scene. I was terrible. Utterly and wholly terrible. I loved my
teacher, this sweet old Jewish woman named Lillian who played piano at my temple,
but I hated the lessons. It took me seven years of forced practice and fighting my
mother to reach the level of playing Fr Elise but not real Fr Elise, the easy-pianomade-for-whiny-ten-year-olds-who-dont-know-whats-good-for-them Fr Elise. I
really hated piano lessons.
Today I played piano for a master class with one of my idols, Kelli OHara, who just
won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical. A few weeks ago I played
for SNLs Ana Gastayer, and a few months before that some of my work was featured
in the New York Musical Theatre Festival. At some point, I went from fidgeting and
clunkiness and begrudgingly hitting keys to not being able to spend twenty-four hours
away from music. I spend at least an hour every day sitting in the practice rooms in
the Dunster basement, playing anything from Frank Loesser to Billy Joel to things I
make up on the spot.
But for a very long time, I didnt like art when I wasnt good at it. I liked dance when I
was younger because I had the spunk and pizazz to succeed in things like jazz and tap
because lets be real, its all about personality in the world of dance until youre older.
But I hated ballet because after a while I couldnt get away with just smiling and
knowing the moves. I stuck with it though, because ballet training is important for
technique. I ended up performing in more Nutcrackers than I can count.
After a few discouraging common casting seasons, I contemplated spending less time
on stage. In high school I was good on stage relative to all the other performers. When
I got to Harvard, everyone was just so incredible that what I realized were forced acting
and mediocre singing couldnt pass anymore. I started liking being on stage less and
less. Maybe its just not for me? I thought. But when I really think about it, none of this
is really for me anyway. Music is disproportionately male, dance is disproportionately
skinny, neither of which are things I am.
I am going to use this personal statement now such that whoever reads this holds me
accountable. I, Elizabeth Paige Terry-Kantor, will not stop performing. Even though I
will probably be cast as second tree from the left a million times over, it will take those
trials to get good. And I will get good. During sophomore year of high school, after
twelve years of training, I got good at dancing. During freshman year of college, after
sixteen years of playing, I got good at piano. I started doing theatre when I was twelve,
which means Im only nine years in. I have a huge amount of time to put in before I can
get good. And I will get good.
I still hate piano lessons, though.

ARTISTIC RESUME
MUSIC
Composition/Orchestrations
SHE
Beyond Words (NYMF)
Soundbytes w/Brian Lowdermilk
The Odyssey
Mike and MicahWoods
Getting the Girl

OBERON
Theater 3
Adams Pool Theater
Harvard Dance Center
Loeb Ex
Leverett Library Theater

Karen Chee, dir.


Brandon Powell, dir.
O. Munk/T. Vandick, dirs.
M. McCavana/L. Melampy, dirs.
Karen Chee, dir.
Ally Kiley, dir.

OBERON
Greene Theater at Emerson
Loeb Ex
Leverett Library Theater

Karen Chee, dir.


Jake Catsaros, dir.
Karen Chee, dir.
Ally Kiley, dir.

Music Direction/Conducting
SHE
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Mike and MicahWoods
Getting the Girl

DANCE
Choreography
Avenue Q
The Odyssey
Exposure
Drood
Curtains
The Great Gatsby

OBERON
Harvard Dance Center
Farkas Hall
Centerstage Drama
Centerstage Drama
Centerstage Drama

Jake Stepasnky, dir.


M. McCavana/L. Melampy, dirs.
L. McCaull/M. Ko, dirs.
Cristina Farruggia, dir.
Cristina Farruggia, dir.
Cristina Farruggia, dir.

Loeb Mainstage
Farkas Hall
New Generation Theater
Helen Hayes Theater
Helen Hayes Theater
Helen Hayes Theater

Joey Longstreet, dir.


Ally Kiley, dir.
Justin Boccitto, dir.
Mark Longergan, dir.
Mark Longergan, dir.
Mark Longergan, dir.

Dance Captain
Nine
Bat Boy
Hairspray
Legally Blonde
Avenue Q
Spring Awakening

SELECTED PERFORMANCE
First Day of School
Susan
Arts @ 29 Garden
Crystals
Angel
Loeb Ex
Middletown
Various
Loeb Mainstage
Bat Boy
Ron/Maggie
Farkas Hall
Hairspray
Tracy
New Generation Theater
[title of show]**
Heidi
Helen Hayes Theater
Anything Goes
Reno
Helen Hayes Theater
Little Women
Marmee
Helen Hayes Theater
Into the Woods
Bakers Wife
Helen Hayes Theater
**Original non-Actors Equity Association cast

Julia Belanoff, dir.


Aislinn Brophy, dir.
Ally Kiley, dir.
Ally Kiley, dir.
Justin Boccitto, dir.
Bryan Jager, dir.
Amy Griffin, dir.
Amy Griffin, dir.
Amy Griffin, dir.

Jazz
Comtemporary/Lyrical
Tap
Theatre Dance
Hip Hop
Ballet/Pointe
Acting
Voice

Mary Ann Lamb


Michelle Barber
Chris Bailey/Julie Garofolo
Bill Hastings
Kadee Jacobsen
Allison Lister/Michelle Lucci
David Hibbard
Celeste Simone

TRAINING
Coup Theatre Studio
Broadway Dance Center
Coup Theatre Studio
Coup Theatre Studio
Coup Theatre Studio
Coup Theatre Studio
Coup Theatre Studio
Celeste Simone Voice

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