Elizabeth originated the role of Detective Audrey O'Connor in the Pulitzer Prize winning play, Between Riverside and Crazy, by Stephen Adly Guirgis and directed by Austin Pendleton at The Atlantic Theater Company and 2nd Stage. She aslo originated the role of Mary Jane Hanrahan in, Jesus Hopped the A Train, (East 13th Street NYC, Edinburgh Theater Festival, The Donmar Warehouse, and The Arts Theater (West End London), Marcia in, Our Lady of 121st Street,(Union Square Theater). She was Fabiana Aziza Cunningham in The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at the Public Theater, NYC. All shows were directed by the Academy Award winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman and written by award winning playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis.