Elizabeth Williams

Olive Harriet Smythe

Elizabeth trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama winning the City of London Lyrical Prize. She has played many leading roles in musical comedy and operetta, and been engaged as soprano soloist in major choral works in the UK and abroad. Her roles have included Hanna Glavari in The Merry Widow, Mrs Peachum in The Beggars Opera,
the Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music, Madam Dubonnet in The Boyfriend and Ruth in the Pirates of Penzance.

She has performed throughout the UK in repertory, playing at the Laurence Batley Theatre as Mrs Reece in The Farndale Avenue Murder Mystery directed by David McGillivray, repeated at Buxton Opera House and Norwich Playhouse. Other roles have included Delia in Bedroom Farce, Mrs Warwick in The Unexpected Guest, Kat Ashley in Tudor Virgin, Mrs Bramson in Night Must Fall, at Buxton Opera House and the Pomegranate, Chesterfield and Miss Prism in The Importance of Being Earnest. Other roles have included the Duchess of Berwick in Lady Windermeres Fan, Leonora Fiske in Ladies in Retirement, Miss Tipdale in Not Now Darlingand Clara Soppitt in When We Are Married, at the Little Theatre, Sheringharn. Recent theatre performances have included Peggy Ramskiel in Wedding of the Year, Maggie in Outside Edge at St. Gearge’s Theatre Great Yarmouth and Donna Lucia in Charley’s Aunt and various roles in an adaptation of Under Milk Wood at the Auden Theatre in Norfolk. She has just finished performing throughout Austria in Arthur Miller’s The Last Yankee, playing Karen Frick.

Her television work has included roles in Silent Witness (Mrs Kent), Over Here (Lady Rufus) with Geraldine James and Jack Shepherd, Dalziel and Pascoe, Martin Chuzzlewit (Mrs Piper), Get Well Soon and All the Kings Men with David Jason. Her written work has included a Talking Heads item for NRG Films and The Talisman (children’s story) far Myridon Productions. She has also recorded a series of stories for the National Trust called The Pleasure of Houses.

After this engagement in Vienna, she returns to England to play in Ruddigore
and Dinner With the Family by Jean Anouilh.

Elizabeth Williams

Olive Harriet Smythe

Elizabeth trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama winning the City of London Lyrical Prize. She has played many leading roles in musical comedy and operetta, and been engaged as soprano soloist in major choral works in the UK and abroad. Her roles have included Hanna Glavari in The Merry Widow, Mrs Peachum in The Beggars Opera,
the Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music, Madam Dubonnet in The Boyfriend and Ruth in the Pirates of Penzance.

She has performed throughout the UK in repertory, playing at the Laurence Batley Theatre as Mrs Reece in The Farndale Avenue Murder Mystery directed by David McGillivray, repeated at Buxton Opera House and Norwich Playhouse. Other roles have included Delia in Bedroom Farce, Mrs Warwick in The Unexpected Guest, Kat Ashley in Tudor Virgin, Mrs Bramson in Night Must Fall, at Buxton Opera House and the Pomegranate, Chesterfield and Miss Prism in The Importance of Being Earnest. Other roles have included the Duchess of Berwick in Lady Windermeres Fan, Leonora Fiske in Ladies in Retirement, Miss Tipdale in Not Now Darlingand Clara Soppitt in When We Are Married, at the Little Theatre, Sheringharn. Recent theatre performances have included Peggy Ramskiel in Wedding of the Year, Maggie in Outside Edge at St. Gearge’s Theatre Great Yarmouth and Donna Lucia in Charley’s Aunt and various roles in an adaptation of Under Milk Wood at the Auden Theatre in Norfolk. She has just finished performing throughout Austria in Arthur Miller’s The Last Yankee, playing Karen Frick.

Her television work has included roles in Silent Witness (Mrs Kent), Over Here (Lady Rufus) with Geraldine James and Jack Shepherd, Dalziel and Pascoe, Martin Chuzzlewit (Mrs Piper), Get Well Soon and All the Kings Men with David Jason. Her written work has included a Talking Heads item for NRG Films and The Talisman (children’s story) far Myridon Productions. She has also recorded a series of stories for the National Trust called The Pleasure of Houses.

After this engagement in Vienna, she returns to England to play in Ruddigore
and Dinner With the Family by Jean Anouilh.