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"With a rubber face, ballet training, & an inexhaustible stack of accents and mannerisms, she delivered a bravura performance. Dozens of characters spilled out onto the stage, hooting, screeching, mooing, barking, arguing with each other & killing each other off.""Amazing stage presence, energy and enthusiasm" BBC "From the moment she sets off, Wort is like a dynamo on the stage." METRO "Fresh, beautiful, full of passion." THE STAGEActress/dancer/choreographer. Also known throughout the kingdom for folding napkins at a truly remarkable speed. Lizzie received high critical acclaim in the solo show of Animal Farm, adapted and produced by Guy Masterson, which premiered at The Assembly Rooms before touring for two years throughout the UK and beyond including opening the first Prague Fringe Festival and The Holders Season in Barbados. She wrote and performed solo show Cooking The Catholic Way. Other credits include The Day of The Triffids in association with Gavin Robertson for The New Wolsey, Beauty & The Beast, inspired by Jean Cocteau's La Belle et La Bete for Jackson's Lane, Highgate, written by Adrian Berry, directed by Lisa Spirling, About Colin, by the acclaimed Doctor Who writer Robert Shearman for Sevenoaks Playhouse and The Robot Show for BAC. She recently played Titania in Diaspora, an International project hosted by The National Theatre Of Scotland. She has performed in sketches with Rob Newman for Robert Newman's History Of Oil and with Mighty Boosh's Rich Fulcher for Snuffbox.Lizzie is a workshop leader in physical masks and physical storytelling. She was choreographer for Jack Pleasure by Adrian Berry at the Union Theatre, Hamlet! The Musical written by Alex Silverman and Edward Jaspers which toured through Taiwan with DaDa Arts, and a 57 cast version of The Insect play for Trinity Theatre. Lizzie has had extensive training in contemporary dance, ballet, tap, tango, period dance, lazzi and commedia dell' arte. She trained for six years in classical flamenco dance with Sherrill Wexler and studied the Martha Graham Technique with Genevieve Grady. She was the inspiration and first winner of The Dame Betti Vaccani Joy Of Dance Award at just six years old. The award continues today. Instruments include piano, recorder, guitar, melodica, castanets, stylophone, glockenspiel and The Triangle.. Lizzie trained at Elmhurst Ballet School & Bretton Hall.Lizzie recently performed Miss Mephista in And The Devil May Drag You Under @George Square, Edinburgh Festival with Des O' Connor and Special Guests."A high degree of musical wit and lyricism." THE GUARDIAN. < FOR MORE DETAILS SEE www.myspace.com/thedevilmaydragyouunderLizzie has recently been playing Miss Loveitt in Finger In the Pie's producton of Sweeney Todd. FOR MORE DETAILS SEE www.fingerinthepie.com Background: Grandfather Wort played the viola & the piano and although a mathematician schoolmaster harboured dreams of acting on stage. Granny Smith, yes..really, came from a family of extremely merry East Londoners, who wrote songs and played in the bars. Great Uncle Fred wrote "My Old Man Said Follow The Van". Cousin Joseph Alford is the founder of the fabulous and groundbreaking Theatre O.Things that make Lizzie happy: Marmite on crumpets, single malts, hats, feathers, petticoats, aprons, a twinkle in the eye, bulgarian voice choirs, the circus, wigs, dancing in bookstores, dancing to brass bands, bendy faces, waddling ducks, flying kites, markets, kindness, steam trains, the crackling when the needle hits the 78 on her gramophone. Things Lizzie is fearful of: Sleepwalkers, egotism, slothfulness, people who don't shake your hand properly, vimto and christmas cake.