Lizzie Hope Hagstedt

Biography

Lizzie Hagstedt is an actor/singer/musician/composer from Sayville, New York. As a composer, she is the recipient of a 2023 Cross Arts Collaborative residency from the Hermitage Artist Retreat, and was a 2021 Jonathan Larson Grant Finalist. She has composed several scores of incidental music predominantly for Asolo Rep including a semi-musical adaptation of "The Odyssey" entitled "Looking for Ithaca" which toured in the fall of 2022. Two staged readings of her music "Hereville" were presented as part of the Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival in summer of 2023 at the Old Globe and the Dea Hurston New Village Arts Center.

Performing credits include: swinging the John Doyle production of "Sweeney Todd", playing bass for "Sweet Charity" at the New Group, and "Southern Comfort" at the Public, Barrington Stage, and CAP21. She most recently performed as Iris on the accordion in a production of the "The Tempest" at Round House Theatre in Bethesda, Maryland utilizing the song catalogue of Tom Waits .