Elyzabeth Gorman

Elyzabeth Gorman is a writer and storyteller based in the Netherlands. She is the founder and nerd-in-chief of the award-winning Badass Tours, which leads Amsterdam tours focused on BIPOC, Jewish, LGBTQ+ and women’s history. They were researched in archives, libraries and cultural institutions across the country. Her storytelling performances include the Jewish Museum, the Van Gogh Museum, Paradiso, Groningen’s Grand Theater, Castle Terborgh, and Mezrab House of Stories. She also wrote a popular storytelling tour of De Burcht van Berlage for the International Institute of Social History and the Jewish Cultural Quarter. She hosts an ongoing storytelling event at Moving Arts Centre Amsterdam.

In her previous life she was an award-winning New York City theater director, with work spanning from classical reinterpretation, such as an all-female commedia production of The Taming of the Shrew to developing challenging new plays such as an Asian-American response to Top Girls. She began writing about the women hidden throughout written history when the Gielgud Fellowship to the Shakespeare Theatre of DC allowed her to research at the Folger Shakespeare Library. What began as research into Shakespeare’s sources became The Memory of the Brave, a play that used original and found text to tell the stories of the women of the Hundred Years’ War and the War of the Roses. Her theater management career brought her to theaters such as Blue Man Group, Classical Theater of Harlem, Pan-Asian Rep, and Le 7 Doigts interactive nightclub spectacle, Queen of the Night.