Lizzie 
Hagstedt

Over the course of the last several months we recorded and mixed and mastered a five-song EP featuring an all-star group of singers including Tony winner Lauren Patten (OBC Jagged Little Pill, OBC Becky Shaw), Britney Coleman (national tours of Beetlejuice and Company), Hannah Elless (OBC Brightstar), Sydney Shepherd (Bandits on the Run), Angel Lin, Claire-Frances Sullivan, and Celia Tedde. 

Check it out now on iTunes and Spotify and a lot of other places I've never heard of. 

Sophie received a concert on March 27th through Prospect Musicals as a part of their Ignite Festival. The evening featured Britney Coleman (national tours of Beetlejuice and Company), Jennifer Sánchez (High Spirits at Encores, Real Women Have Curves) Anne Fraser Thomas (Queen of Versailles, Titanique Off-Broadway),​

10.23-25.2025: Played bass for another entry in Salty Brine's Living Record Collection, this time based on the Modest Mouse album Good News For People Who Love Bad News, at Joe's Pub.

09.26-28.2025:  Played bass for this sold-out series of concerts at Cape Playhouse. 

09.16-22.2025: I went up to Johnson City, New York to spend five full days pretending writing was my only job in residency at Firehouse Stage under the auspices of Prospect Musicals and NYS Council on the Arts. 

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I managed to work through some huge sections of Sophie as well as write the first three songs on a brand new musical project!

On May 25th I see Beyonce in Newark, and one May 26th I fly across the pond to the UK to rehearse a one-night concert of my musical Oneida at Seven Dials Playhouse on May 29th @ 2 p.m. 

Book and Lyrics by Beth Blatt, Directed by Celine Rosenthal, and Music Directed by Max Gallagher. Are you in London? Click to reserve your seats! 

​03.06.2025: Sophie Blanchard's High-Flyin' Rock'n'Roll Extravaganza received a one-night concert performance at Center at West Park featuring 

​Sophie Blanchard's High-Flyin' Rock'n'Roll Extravaganza will debut in a workshop production at IRT in the West Village from August 23-September 1st! Click for tix!

I was selected as a member of the 2024 Moxie Incubator Cohort for my musical Sophie Blanchard's High-Flyin' Rock'n'Roll Extravaganza  The program pairs two musicals with two directors and two line producers over the course of a year of accelerated development including a concert, a 29-hour reading, and a showcase code production.

The Incubator began with a concert at The Green Room 42 on December 6. where I performed selections from Sophie with an incredible crew of some of my favorite performers/friends. 

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On March 9th, 2024, Moxie Arts produced a 29-hour reading at the The Center at West Park. 

07.13-07.25.2024: Continuing our momentum, we'll next be at Christopher Newport University (Lisa's alma mater) taking part in the New Musicals Lab.  The program endeavours to make space for artists to craft new musicals by providing access to world-class facilities, creative funding, and student talent.

06.13-06.18.2024: My musical with collaborator Lisa Helmi Johanson, Wild West Show, was the recipient of the Muriel O'Neil American Heritage Commission. We just had our first ever reading at Asolo Rep in Sarasota, Florida with an incredible group of artists and learned an incredible deal about the show. 

11.14.2023: Performed a selection of work I completed as part of my artist's residency at the Asolo Repertory Theatre's Koski rehearsal space after the rain prevented us from performing outside at The Bay Sarasota. 

11.09.2023: Hereville: the Musical  was presented in a concert reading at the Center for Jewish History as a part of JEWCE, Jewish Comics Experience, a celebration of the vibrant world of Jewish comics, showcasing the powerful fusion of Jewish culture, history, and artistic expression.

The entire performance is available on Youtube!

08.22.2023-09.05.2023: I was the recipient of the Cross Arts Collaborative residency at the Hermitage Artist Retreat. Spent one glorious week on the beach writing all day until I had to flee to my folks' place in Jupiter across the state because of Hurricane Idalia. I still managed to write up a ton!

The Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival and Kids on Stage Productions presented two concert readings of Hereville through The Whole Megillah Jewish New Play Festival 06.11.2023 at the Old Globe & 07.09.2023 at The Dea Hurston New Village Arts Center. 

The readings were directed by Laura Brandel. 

3.02.2023: Hereville received its west coast premiere in a one-night concert reading produced by Kids on Stage Productions at Congregation Beth Israel in San Diego. 

10.26.2022-1.29.2023: Performed as Iris, singing and playing the accordion in the band Rough Magic in the Tempest at Round House Theatre in Bethesda, Maryland. Adapted and directed by Aaron Posner and Teller (of Penn & Teller fame), an unforgettable reimagining of Shakespeare’s most enchanting romance features haunting music from the catalog of iconic songwriter Tom Waits and mind-bending moves from Pilobolus, as well as astonishing feats of magic. 

WE WERE NOMINATED FOR 10 HELEN HAYES AWARDS INCLUDING OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION IN A PLAY, OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE IN A PLAY, AND OUTSTANDING MUSIC DIRECTION!!

10.3-11.20.2022: Wrote music for Looking for Ithaca an original adaptation of The Odyssey, Asolo Rep/FSU's Conservatory for Actor Training's fall school tour written by ​Jess Shoemaker and directed by Gaby Rodriguez. This is my fourth year contributing an original score for the tour.