Elizabeth Parrish

Elizabeth "Betsy" Parrish (February 10, 1925 – December 16, 2022) was an American actress, singer and acting teacher. Career Parrish was long affiliated with the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. Other teaching credits include: Circle in the Square, High School of Performing Arts, Metropolitan Opera Studio, Yale Drama School (Associate Professor Adjunct), American Academy of Dramatic Art, and the Eugene O'Neill International Theatre Institute. She was a founding member of the Harold Clurman Laboratory Theatre Company, having performed in Uncle Vanya, Hot L Baltimore, and Macbeth. In 2004, she appeared in a one-woman New York musical revue, Moments of Being, with Betsy. In 2019 and 2020, the nonagenarian Parrish performed her cabaret show, "Every Soul's a Cabaret", at, among other venues, the Martha's Vineyard Playhouse (Massachusetts) and the Pangea World Theater (Minneapolis, Minnesota), respectively.