By Elizabeth Wilson

"The year was 1943 and I was an apprentice at Cape May New Jersey. In the middle of the summer the leading lady left to do a soap opera and T.C. Upom who ran the theatre called me in the box office and said he wanted me to replace her – but he wouldn’t be paying me. I said, “You know Mr. Upom I think that’s illegal”, and he said, “You know, you are right.” So I called my father in Grand Rapids Mich. and he sent me one hundred dollars, which is what it cost, and my salary was forty-six dollars a week. Was I proud when I went back to the Neighborhood Playhouse for my second year! I was now a professional actress!"

Elizabeth Wilson’s many Broadway appearances include WAITING IN THE WINGS, the award winning revival of Albee’s A DELICATE BALANCE, the Yale repertory/Arvin Brown production of AH, WILDERNESS! with Jason Robards, Colleen Dewhurst and George Hearn, the Tony Award winning revival of MORNINGS AT SEVEN which began at the Lake Forest Theatre in Illinois where she won a Joseph Jefferson Award as Best Actress and her Tony Award winning performance in the New York Shakespeare Festival’s production of STICKS AND BONES. Her Broadway debut in 1952 was in PICNIC in the role she repeated in the film version. Other Broadway and off-Broadway plays include ANCESTRAL VOICES at Lincoln Center Theater, TONGUE OF THE BIRD with Cherry Jones, TAKEN IN MARRIAGE (Obie Award), THREEPENNY OPERA (Drama Desk nomination), ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL, SOLONIKA as Jessica Tandy’s daughter (Drama Desk Award), SHEEP ON THE RUNWAY, YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU with Jason Robards and Colleen Dewhurst, the all-star revival of Mike Nichol’s production of UNCLE VANYA with George C. Scott and Julie Christie and the Playwrights Horizon production of Harry Kondolian’s ANTIROOM (Obie Award). She has made four films for Mike Nichol’s: THE GRADUATE (as Dustin Hoffman’s mother), CATCH 22, DAY OF THE DOLPHIN and REGARDING HENRY. She starred in the highly successful THE ADDAM’S FAMILY as Fester’s wicked mother and was the office “snitch” Roz in NINE TO FIVE with Dolly, Jane and Lily. Other films include NOBODY’S FOOL, QUIZ SHOW, THE BELIEVERS, GRACE QUIGLEY with THE GODDESS. She won an Emmy nomination for her role as Lee Remick’s mother in the miniseries NUTCRACKER. She starred in the series EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE with George C. Scott and DOC with Barnard Hughes. She co-starred in the mini-series QUEEN, IN THE BEST OF FAMILIES and SARAH, PLAIN AND TALL: SKYLARK, SCARLET and LAW AND ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT and GIDIEON’S CROSSING. She studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. She recently completed a run of the two one acts “The 75th” by Isreal Horowitz and “THE VIBRATOR” by Arthur Laurents at the George Street Playhouse directed by David Saint.