Biography

"Elizabeth Mitchell as the sum and center of the March family universe – Marmee – offers a poignant but refreshingly lighthearted take on the role. She has a remarkable and distinctive singing voice, with the acting chops to accentuate that innate talent. Her solo moments of reflection on stage as a mother trying to keep the fraying threads of her family woven together are a gut punch."  

Roy Sexton, Reel Roy Reviews

Marmee in "Little Women: The Broadway Musical"

One Off Productions

ELIZABETH MITCHELL, Mezzo-Soprano, is an award winning performer whose repertoire ranges from opera to cabaret to theater. A native of Salt Lake City, Utah, Elizabeth was blessed to be raised in a musical family and first discovered her passion for music as a pianist when she was 5 years old. By the age of 16, she changed her focus to singing and has never looked back.

Elizabeth ihs at home on stage. This year she made her Toledo Opera debut as Emma Goldman in Ragtime  and won a 2021-2022 Wilde Award for Best Leading Actress in a Play for her portrayal of Jenny in Jenny's House of Joy with The Dio Theater. In 2019, Elizabeth was nominated as Best Supporting Actress in a Musical for the Broadway World Detroit Regional Awards for her performance as Marmee in Little Women​ with One Off Productions. Professionally, she has performed with Ohio Light Opera, Michigan Opera Theater, Utah Opera, Opera Western Reserve, Arbor Opera Theater, Friends of the Opera of Michigan, Opera MODO, Comic Opera Guild, and Main Street Opera Theatre. In 2014, Elizabeth made her international debut as the Witch and Mother in Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel with Opera im Park in St. Anton am Arlberg, Austria. She returned in 2015 to sing the role of Dorabella in Mozart's Così fan tutte. In addition to these amazing roles, favorites include Suzuki in Madama Butterfly, Mrs. Grose in The Turn of the Screw, Mrs. Herring in Albert Herring, Ruth in The Pirates of Penzance, Marie in The Most Happy Fella, and Mistress Page in Nicolai’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. She can also be heard as Mrs. VanDare on Ohio Light Opera’s recording of The Firefly (Albany Records).

Elizabeth is equally at home on the concert stage and has performed as a soloist with the Michigan Philharmonic,  Orchestra Sono, Monroe County Community College's Symphonic Band, and The Toledo Choral Society. In 2022, Elizabeth was honored to be the alto soloist for the world premiere of The Great Lakes Cantata by American composer Gwyneth Walker and returned in 2023 as the mezzo soloist in Considering Matthew Shepard by Craig Hella Johnson and the alto soloist for Handel's Messiah.  In 2014, Elizabeth began to sing with the Dodworth Saxhorn Band of Ann Arbor, Michigan and has toured statewide and nationally. In addition to her work as soloist with the DSB, Ms. Mitchell is also part of the Dodworth Duo. With her fellow artists Julie Craigo and Ted Badgerow, Elizabeth recorded the Duo's debut album "A Thorn Among Roses" (Vivo Productions) which was released in October 2017. 

In 2019 Elizabeth made her debut as a stage director. Her first production of Mary Poppins with Tecumseh Youth Theatre was a huge success earning multiple nominations in the 2019 Broadway World Awards including Best Production for Young Adults. In 2021 she returned to TYT and successfully and safely directed Beauty and the Beast in person show despite pandemic conditions and directed Newsies in 2023. In December of 2021, Elizabeth directed HMS Pinafore with the University of Michigan Gilbert and Sullivan Society to great acclaim and loved working with this talented cast and incredible prod team.  She made her debut as Music Director with Concordia University's production of Bye Bye Birdie in April, 2023 and music directed Shakespeare in Love in October 2023 and Big Fish in March, 2024. She looks forward to music directing Fiddler on the Roof in April 2025.

In addition to her stage work, Elizabeth has competed in national and international competitions. In 2011, she was honored to be selected as a Utah District Finalist at the Metropolitan Opera Competition. Other awards include being an international finalist at the Lotte Lenya Competition for Singers in 2007 and a semi-finalist at the International Czech and Slovak Competition in both 2007 and 2009. 

Ms. Mitchell received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Utah and her Master of Music degree at the University of Michigan, both in Vocal Performance and with scholarship. Elizabeth loves teaching and is Adjunct Music Faculty at Concordia University Ann Arbor and Washtenaw Community College in addition her private studio. To learn more about Elizabeth as an educator, visit singwithbeth.com.