She began her career with a Mary MacArthur Award to the American Theatre Wing in New York City presented by Helen Hayes and Charles MacArthur.
She appeared with Paul Muni and Ed Begley in Inherit the Wind, with Jerry Orbach in The Three Penny Opera, and created the role of Catherine Howard in Royal Gambit, before going to Hollywood.
During her days in Hollywood, she starred in numerous TV classics such as Gunsmoke, Bonanza, and Outer Limits, appearing on stage in the West Coast premieres of The Great God Brown, The Balcony, The Collection, and Touch of the Poet.
On her return to New York, under the artistic direction of Ellis Rabb and Jack O’Brien, with the APA Phoenix Repertory at the Lyceum Theatre and in Ann Arbor, she played Lady Macbeth, The Player Queen in Hamlet, Eliante in The Misanthrope, among other roles.
She played opposite George C. Scott in the hit revival of Present Laughter, in 84 Charing Cross Road, The Women, and The Musical Comedy Murders.
She was in Isn’t it Romantic, A Perfect Ganesh, The Chairs, Fefu and Her Friends, among many other notable Off-Broadway productions. Her regional credits include Painting Churches, The Subject Was Roses, Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Farm, Peer Gynt, Glass Menagerie, Steel Magnolias, and On Golden Pond.
On television she has played major roles on Kate and Allie, Another World, As the World Turns, and as a regular on the series, Nurse. Ms. Perry is a theatrical coach and conducts workshops on playwrighting and musical theatre.
“A Difficult Borning”, a collaboration of the works of Sylvia Plath won the Villager Award for Best Ensemble when produced by the American Renaissance Theatre Company (ARTC) where she also acted in her play Did You See the Elephant? and developed her one-person play “Sun Flower “. It subsequently toured the US, produced by Philip Rose and directed by ARTC colleague, Anita Khanzadian . The ARTC is a non-profit theatre group which was founded by her beloved colleague, the late Robert Elston and Elizabeth in 1976. She has benefited greatly from the support afforded by the ARTC and its members, creating within its workshop three full length plays and five one acts.
ELIZABETH ON TELEVISION
1. McHale's Navy:The Great Necklace Caper Air Date:3/30/65
Binghamton tries to frame McHale and The Boys with the theft of a jade necklace – A birthday present for his Wife – When Naval Intelligence is called in to investigate its disappearance.
2. “Bonanza” – The Dilemna
With Lorne Green and Anthony Call
Color, 1965
Several Virginia City citizens appoint Ben as a temporary circuit judge. He soon faces a major test when the bank is robbed clean, and an old safe cracker confesses to the crime - but refuses to tell where he hid the money unless Ben lets him go free. Elizabeth Perry plays the part of Ruthie Davis.
“Outer Limits” – The Brain of Colonel Barham first aired Jan. 2nd 1965 (Black and White)
“Gunsmoke” – Two Tall Men
(/0144)4/8/65 CBS Entertainment, inc.
TV series made for NPT - Black and White
Directed by Joseph Sargent
“Ephraim MacDowell’s Kentucky Ride” WBGH Boston – Public Television - Two hour film
Color 1981, Starring Paul Guilfoyle and Elizabeth Perry
True story of the first successful abdominal surgery, performed without anesthesia on Christmas Day 1809
“Mission Impossible” – The Brothers
Batch 030215AB; Sub batch #115Sequence #28, Color
“Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” – The Death Ship
w. David Hedesson, about 1967
“ Perry Mason” – Lover’s Gamble
Batch#112713AI, Sub batch #016, Sequence# 8
“A warm human portrayal … A tribute not only to Elizabeth Cady Stanton
but to the actress herself. Backstage, NY
“Eloquent … remarkably contemporary … particularly moving” New York Today
“A Brilliant tour de force … an amazingly human monologue” The New Voice of New York
“A bravura performance …
with exuberance, intelligence, wit, and vulnerability.” The Washington Post
“Elizabeth Perry’s Stanton makes ‘Sun Flower’ a winner …
a loving and instructive portrait” The Washington Times
“Elizabeth Perry shines as Elizabeth Cady Stanton –
makes a dry, dusty figure from the history books comes alive –
The Leader Herald, Johnstown, NY (Mrs. Stanton’s birthplace)
“…A 100%, undiluted all-American woman …
unlike the stereotypes feminists have battled throughout history” The Recorder/Amsterdam/Johnstown, NY
Elizabeth Perry, the Actor/Playwright and Artist
‘Sun Flower’ -The Life and Loves of Elizabeth Cady Stanton debuted in Mrs. Stanton’s birthplace, Johnstown NY, and has played all over the country including in the Capitol Rotunda, the Senate Building, at Governor Pataki’s Albany Summit for Young Women, at the Washington Arena’s Old Vat Theatre, at the 150th Anniversary of Women’s Rights in Seneca Falls, and in NYC at the Neighborhood Playhouse, the Homegrown and The Houseman Studio Theatres. At the invitation of the White House she performed Sun Flower for the Millennium Celebration in DC. and has made appearances throughout the US. She has been seen as Elizabeth Cady Stanton on CNN, CSPAN, CNBC, NY1, and heard on NPR.
‘Sun Flower’ is a touching and funny play about the long, long, struggle beginning in 1848 when Elizabeth Cady Stanton read the first woman’s rights protest to an audience in Seneca Falls, most of them to jeer … As a young mother and journalist she used the pseudonym ‘Sun Flower’, mentored Susan B. Anthony, and formed a partnership that shook the nineteenth century.
Recently, Elizabeth made a decision
to release "Sun Flower"
to a larger audience.
It can be produced with a full cast or as a one person play.
“Sun Flower – The Life and Loves of Elizabeth Cady Stanton”
One woman’s journey through the 19th Century, a play in two acts
which toured as a one woman show with twenty characters,
now available for full casting.
”Did You See the Elephant?”
Cast of eight, concerning a single mother raising daughters
in a post-World War Two federal housing project.
A Homeless Fable” Book and Lyrics by Elizabeth Perry,
Music by Maria del Sol and The Composing Team The story of Irving Sheinberg and his good intentions.
The indefatigable ghost of an old woman haunts a veterinarian who owns the converted town house which she once inhabited,unleashing a time before gentrification when the city streets were overrun with homeless occupants.
"Courage" - The Historical Series
MOZART ON THE MOON
First in the series, 'Courage', this 4'X5' oil on canvas commemorates the 1969 landing of the astronauts on the rocky surface of the moon and leaves behind a phantom harpsichordist. (privately owned)
NINE/ELEVEN
Second in the series, "Courage", this 4'X5' oil on canvas is a tribute to the courage of the victims who in the final exercise of life reached out to others, transforming tragedy to the perfection of the human soul.
"Nine Eleven" is presently on loan to the
City of Pembroke Pines and is displayed in theGlass Gallery of the Pembroke Pines City Hall, Florida - The Commissioners' Meeting Room
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON DRAFTING
THE DECLARATION OF WOMAN'S SENTIMENTS, 1848
Third in the series, "Courage",this 3'X4' oil on canvas honors the unerring contribution of American women to the growth of our society despite total disfranchisement from 1776 to 1920. Ms. Perry's play, ?Sun Flower? based on the life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton has toured America and been featured on NPR and CSPAN. Ms. Perry was specially invited to perform her one woman play at the president's millenium celebration in Washington, DC.
Detail of Elizabeth Cady Stanton painting
THE LONG MARCH
Fourth in the series 'Courage', this 3'X4' oil on canvas was inspired by Jean Batiste Carpeaux's 1868 sculpture, ?Pourquoi naite esclave?? (Why born slave?) which is in the Hirschorn Museum in Washington, DC. It depicts the African/American journey from the cotton fields to Martin Luther Kings Freedom march to Selma, Alabama in 1965 as well as the aftermath of the Civil War in Charleston, South Carolina. Ms. Perry's one man play, ?The African American Portrait Gallery? is presently touring South Florida."
THE LONG MARCH Detail
THE LONG MARCH Detail
THE LONG MARCH Detail
THE KINDERTRANSPORT Germany, 1938-39
Fifth in Perry's Courage Series. With the destruction of Jewish synagogues and property and Jews being taken to the camps, desperate parents sent their children to England for safety. Very few of the children ever saw their parents again.
Oil on canvas - 5 ft X 4 ft
THE KINDERTRANSPORTDetail
THE KINDERTRANSPORT Detail
THE KINDERTRANSPORTDetail
THE KINDERTRANSPORTDetail
Aside from her Historical series 'Courage' featured above, Elizabeth accepts commissions for oil portraits of which there are samples below.
If you are interested in purchasing any of the paintings you see on this site or giclee copies of them, or if you are desirous of commissioning an original oil portrait, you may contact Elizabeth at her email address. She can fulfill your request for any size painting starting at 8"X10" at $300. Perhaps you have an heirloom photo, a favorite picture of your pet, photos of children and other family members. Any request will be considered. An oil portrait is not only a deeply personal gift, but a treasure to be handed down to succeeding generations.
Live modeling session in workshop.
Painting entitled "Seaman" -16" X 20" - "O7
"Mary on Hollywood Beach" -- oil on canvas 9" 12" -- 2009
"Nerissa with Flowers in the Ruins of Charleston" - 16" X 20" - 07
"Broadway Actress in the Tropics - Ruby in her 80's" - 16"X 20" - 07
"Marsha and Gomez at Tea" - 16" X 20" - 09
"David at Work" - 16" X 20" - 07
"Howey, the Mayor of Maple Grove" - 2008
"Annette holding Gibran" - 18"X24" oil on canvas "06
"Camilla" - watercolor on paper- 14"X20" - 07
"Heather with Little Katherine" - 8"X10"- oil on canvas 2009
FLOWERS "All Flower paintings, oil on canvas, 8"X10" -
Giclees available on stretched canvas, enhanced and signed by the artist. $45.00"
