About Me
Lizzie Schebesta is an Actor born in Australia, specialising in Film, Television and Theatre.
Lizzie works in both Theatre and film, having trained at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. She was awarded the female award for best performance in the Sally Burton Awards 2009, and was awarded best performer in 2006 in the National Shakespeare Festival.
While at drama school Lizzie has played a diverse number of roles, from Sonya in Uncle Vanya to Melissa in Coram Boy and Angie in Top Girls. She is passionate about theatre making as well as playwrighting and acting. She will be graduating from WAAPA at the age of 20.
She is passionate about theatre-making as well as playwrighting and acting.
Having started acting at a young age, she will be graduating from WAAPA in November at the age of 20.
Since graduating, Lizzie played the traumatized Girl in S-27, for Griffin Independent, directed by Caroline Craig, Nina in The Seagull, for Siren Theatre Company, directed by Kate Gaul, and Ursula in John Bell highly acclaimed production of Much Ado About Nothing with the Bell Shakespeare Company. She has also participated in the Sydney Hills Shakespeare Festival, The Leura Shakespeare Festival, and the Royal Botanic Garden Shakespeare Festival with Sport for Jove Theatre since its birth in 2009, all directed by Damien Ryan. In this time, she played Rosalind in As You Like It, Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Nurse Lawrence in Romeo and Juliet. This year she will play Bianca in Taming of the Shrew and Witch in Macbeth.
She was nominated for Best Newcomer at the 2010 Sydney Theatre Awards.
Her film credits include Sleeping Beauty directed by Julia Leigh, which was selected as part of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, and Careless Love, directed by John Duigan. She has also starred in Rescue Special Ops and Underbelly: Razor.
In 2012, Lizzie will star in Bell Shakespeare’s main stage production of Macbeth, playing all three witches.