Broadway Performing Arts Information

Elisa is proud to announce her 13 year anniversary teaching, coaching and nurturing artists of all ages, encouraging them to reach for their dreams at Broadway Performing Arts! She can currently be seen in re-runs of the television series FAME in which she starred as the character JILLIAN BECKETT. She starred on Broadway in PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (now the longest running show on Broadway) originating the role of MEG. Her other Broadway credits include SMILE as Melanie, the original Broadway production of RAGTIME, played SYLVIA POTTER PORTER in ANNIE GET YOUR GUN and the original 42nd STREET. She then landed the role of SAMANTHA on the television series DARK JUSTICE on CBS. She also guest starred on several television series such as CAROLINE IN THE CITY, THE CREW, FBI: THE UNTOLD STORIES and TRUE CONFESSIONS. On the big screen she starred in the feature film JOEY in the role of his girlfriend, JANIE, and as TANYA in the recent film FRIENDS & FAMILY. Her national and international tour credits include CASSIE in A CHORUS LINE, MARY BAILEY in ITS A WONDERFUL LIFE, LEISEL in SOUND OF MUSIC, LAURIE in OKLAHOMA, WOMAN OF THE YEAR and JACK. Elisa started her career at 15 years of age dancing principle roles with the Cleveland Ballet and Baltimore Ballet. She then moved to New York where her Broadway career blossomed beginning with The American Dance Machine under Lee Theodore. Elisa studied the Meisner acting technique at Carnegie Hall with Freddie Kareman in New York and at Playhouse West with Bob Carnegie in Los Angeles. She also studied under Margie Haber in her audition technique class and cold reading classes. She studied voice for over 30 years with some of the best Opera singers in New York City and coached with the best Broadway conductors working today. Elisa has starred in somewhere around 100 commercials and counting. Mark starred on Broadway at the ripe old age of 19 as Action in West Side Story. He continued his Broadway career with a total of 9 Broadway shows including; Woman of the Year, A Chorus Line as ...