Liz Duffy Adams: Ten Questions
Liz Duffy Adams

What was an early, memorable theatrical experience?

The first play I ever saw was Twelfth Night at the Beverly Music Theater in Massachusetts, when I was about fifteen. I was electrified. It was a revelation of an alternate, more profoundly beautiful world that I hadn’t known existed, and I instantly and urgently wanted to belong to that world. I actually waited until the theatre was empty and took one step onto the stage, feeling at the same time absurd, thrilled, resolute. Three years later, I was studying acting in New York. And a year after that, I happened upon Richard Foreman’s Ontological-Hysteric Theater and it was a similar transcendent revelation.

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Liz Duffy Adams
Liz Duffy Adams

’ Born With Teeth was produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company on London’s West End, August-November 2025. It premiered in the US at the Alley Theatre, Houston in 2022. She has dual Irish and American citizenship and is based in NYC and Western Mass. More at lizduffyadams.com.