Elizabeth Santos

Elizabeth Santos, born and raised in Newark, NJ, is first generation Portuguese. She is tri-lingual English, Portuguese and Spanish. She is the first person from her family to graduate college! She is a Rutgers grad, and it was there that she developed a deep love of the arts. She fell in love with all the artists about campus and took as many creative classes as she could while getting her BA in communications. It was the thrilling performance of Marat/Sade by the MFA’s at Rutgers that got her hooked, line and sinker. She was in awe of their performances and couldn’t believe that a student body could put on such a magnificent production!
William Esper was head of the theater program during her 4 years at Rutgers, and upon graduation, enrolled in his two-year Meisner program in NY. She believes in constantly fine tuning her craft and has also studied with both Terry Knickerbocker and Maggie Flanigan in their master acting classes, respectively.
She briefly lived in LA to pursue her career and secured her SAG-AFTRA card there, but it all came to a screeching halt when her dad fell ill and had to move back to the East coast to aid in his care. She felt it her daughterly duty after he had raised she and her siblings alone following the tragic loss of their young mother. She even famously declined a dinner invitation from Warren Beaty, instead opting to have dinner with her dad. She’ll tell ya more on that story later. After being away from the acting world for a while due to her father’s passing, she’s thrilled to have joined her newfound family at Actors Theater of NYC, where she was a part of the inaugural reading at the newly renovated Cherry Lane Theater and in the creation of Emily Was Here, an immersive storytelling experience, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Elizabeth is an avid baseball fan (go NY Yankees!) and met her significant other playing co-Ed softball and plays on several teams including on the Buchwald team in the Broadway Show League. She’s also a certified yoga instructor and loves hiking in the mountains of PA and meandering around the city with her dog Lady Bird, a.k.a, Birdie.