Lizzie Hope Hagstedt

Biography

Lizzie Hagstedt is an actor/singer/musician/composer from Sayville, New York. As a composer, current projects include: “Sophie Blanchard’s High-Flyin’ Rock’n’Roll Extravaganza” (August 2024 Off-Off Broadway Production at IRT Theatre as part of the 2024 Moxie Arts NYC Incubator development program, 2020 digital presentation as part of Asolo Rep Ground Floor); Untitled Wild West Show musical with Lisa Helmi Johanson (winner Muriel O’Neil American Heritage Commission, June 2024 reading at Asolo Rep, July 2024 concert presentation at New Musicals Lab); “Hereville” with Robby Sandler (two readings as part of the Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival in summer 2023 at the Old Globe and the Dea Hurston New Village Arts Center, November 2023 concert presentation at the Center for Jewish History); “Oneida” with Beth Blatt (Vox Fest at Dartmouth College, winner Pallas Theatre Table Read Award, October 2023 reading at the Tank). She was the recipient of a 2025 Kindling Writing Retreat with Prospect Musicals, 2023 Cross Arts Collaborative residency from the Hermitage Artist Retreat, and a 2021 Jonathan Larson Grant Finalist.

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 singing and playing the accordion in a production of the "The Tempest" at Round House Theatre in Bethesda, Maryland utilizing the song catalogue of Tom Waits .