ELIZABETH ADDISON
MULTI-HYPHENATE/CREATIVE RECOVERY
COACH/EDUCATOR
Seeking to utilize excellent communication, interpersonal, artistic and facilitation skills to support clients and rehearsal processes. Reliable with a good work ethic and the ability to quickly adapt to new tasks and environments.
Skills
● Workshop Coordination Songwriting
● Curriculum Development
*Motivational Interviewing
● Discussion Facilitation Script Analysis
● Therapeutic Facilitation
● Virtual Classrooms Playwriting
Experience
Creative Recovery Coach/Storytelling & Songwriting Facilitator
The Meghann Perry Group, Bridgewater, MA
September 2020 - Present
• Facilitate a process of learning and healing through the tools of first person narrative storytelling, songwriting and trauma informed group facilitation.
• Individual story coaching sessions for advocacy and performance.
• Analyzed results and identified areas of improvement for future sessions.
• Create engaging activities that encourage collaboration and peer to peer support.
Community Engagement Coordinator/Director/Producer for This is Treatment and Chasing Grace
Boston, Ma & New York City
Sept 2020– Present
● Cultivate relationships with community organizations
● Develop engaging post show events
● Facilitate post show events
● Create and facilitate a trauma informed group within the rehearsal room
● Work with researchers to create an audience survey to collect data on the efficacy of the work to create meaningful change after engaging with it.
Artistic Director/Consultant
2ND ACT
Boston, MA
July 2021 - September 2023
• Co-design the New Works Department.
• Oversee the writing and development of recovery centered plays.
• Educate writers and actors around areas of Substance Use Disorder, Prevention and Harm Reduction.
• Give dramaturgical support for new and existing plays.
• Create a trauma informed writer’s room where writers feel safe to be brave.
Teaching Artist
IMPROBABLE PLAYERS
Watertown, MA
July 2014 - July 2020
• Perform in plays on prevention and education around Substance Use Disorder.
• Lead acting workshops that utilize the art of play to address issues around SUD.
• Facilitate conversations with audience members and various communities around SUD.
RELEVANT TRAININGS
● Recovery Coach Academy
● COURRAGE Narrative Therapy
● Ethical Considerations for Recovery Coaches
● Professionalism for Recovery Coaches
● Infinite Pathways
● GPS Trauma Informed Group Facilitation
● Recovery Storytelling
● Embodied Storytelling
● Psychodrama
● History of the War on Drugs and Racism
● DEI & Anti-racist approaches in the workplace
VOLUNTEER
The Phoenix Gym
Boston, Ma
August 2023- Present
THEATRICAL WORK
MUSICALS
In Between…
Composer, Lyricist and Librettist, Music Director, Accompanist and Producer
CHASING GRACE
Composer, Lyricist, Librettist, Director and Producer
THIS IS TREATMENT
Composer, Lyricist, Librettist, Music Director, Director, Accompanist and Producer
F**k! Now what?!
Composer, Lyricist, Librettist, Music Director, Performer, Accompanist and Producer
UPCOMING PRODUCTION
Off Broadway run of Chasing Grace with SheNYC in 2025/2026
PRODUCTION HISTORY
In Between…
Industry Reading May 2024 Open Jar Studios
Concert Presentation October 2023 54 Below
CHASING GRACE
Upcoming Off-Broadway run 2025/26
SheNYC Summer Festival July 2023 SheNYC
Presentation Concert May 2022 Jag Productions
THIS IS TREATMENT
Full Production April 2022 Northeastern University
Virtual run Jan. 2021 Rider University
Concert March 13th 2018 Feinstein’s 54 Below, NYC
Concert September 2017 The Space, Jamaica Plain
NYC Presentations April 2017 Pearl Studios, NYC
Concert December 2017 ACA, Arlington
Workshop May 2016 Dance Complex, Cambridge
Reading May 2015 Right Turn, Arlington
Workshop November 2014 Dance Complex, Cambridge
Presentation April 2014 Dimock, Roxbury
Presentation February 2014 Dance Complex, Cambridge
F**k! Now What?!
Reading November 2018 Dorchester Arts Project, Boston
GRANT/AWARDS
The a Boston Foundation Lab grant 2024/25
Chasing Grace, Best New Musical, Best Director and Best Lead Actress at the 2023 SheNYC Summer Festival
The Boston Foundation LAB grant 2018
Boston Opportunity Fund 2017
Bob Jolly Grant 2017
FELLOWSHIP/MENTORSHIP/OBSERVERSHIP
MAESTRA Spring 2023 /24
DEAR EVAN HANSEN DEC 2021
MUSE JUNE 2021-DEC 2021
Playwright Fellow in Company One Playlab January 2015-June 2015
PLAYS
My name is Hope Jones
Stages of Change Commissioned by the Improbable Players 2020
Pathways
TRAINING
BMI Basics of Book Writing
FreeStyle Love Supreme Fundamentals of Freestyling Ars Nova Gloria Weinstock Acting I, II, Character Development/Scene Study & Improv CCSF Mark Lee Voice
References
References available upon request