Elizabeth
Murphy
Elizabeth Murphy (she/her) is from Chelmsford, Massachusetts. She studied at Academy of Ballet Arts and the Rock School for Dance Education, and she attended summer courses on scholarship at Pacific Northwest Ballet School and Chautauqua Summer Program, where she was an apprentice with North Carolina Dance Theater. She also performed with Pennsylvania Ballet before joining Ballet West II in 2006 and Ballet West in 2007. Elizabeth joined Pacific Northwest Ballet as a member of the corps de ballet in 2011 and was promoted to soloist in 2013 and principal in 2015.
At Ballet West, Elizabeth danced leading and featured roles in Balanchine’s Agon, The Four Temperaments, Serenade, and Stars and Stripes; William Christiansen’s Nutcracker; Nicolo Fonte’s Bolero; Jiri Kylian’s Sinfonietta; Helen Pickett’s But Never Doubt I Love; and Adam Sklute’s Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake.
Elizabeth designed costumes for Ezra Thomson’s Measure Twice, Cut Once (2016) and Kyle Davis’ Make It So (2016), both for PNB’s NEXT STEP. In 2018, she designed costumes for Kyle Davis’ A Dark and Lonely Space, her first designs for PNB’s mainstage. She designed costumes for PNB’s digital releases of Davis’ Las Estrellas (2021), and Price Suddarth’s The Intermission Project (2021). She is the owner and founder of Label Dancewear.
Featured & Leading Roles
George Balanchine
Agon
Apollo
Coppélia
(Dawn, Discord and War)
Diamonds
Duo Concertant
Emeralds
George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®
(Sugar Plum Fairy, Dewdrop, Coffee, Hot Chocolate)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(Titania, Hermia, Divertissement)
La Source
Stravinsky Violin Concerto
Symphony in C
Andrew Bartee
arms that work
Peter Boal
Giselle
(Giselle, Monya, Bathilde)
Donald Byrd
Love and Loss
Alejandro Cerrudo
Little mortal jump
One Thousand Pieces
Silent Ghost
David Dawson
Empire Noir
A Million Kisses to my Skin
Ulysses Dove
Dancing on the Front Porch of Heaven
Nacho Duato
Rassemblement
William Forsythe
In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated
New Suite
One Flat Thing, reproduced
The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude
Kiyon Gaines
Sum Stravinsky
Ronald Hynd
The Sleeping Beauty
(Lilac Fairy, Fairy of Purity, Countess, Gold and Silver pas de trois)
Jiří Kylián
Forgotten Land
Petite Mort
Edwaard Liang
The Veil Between Worlds
José Limón
The Moor’s Pavane
Jean-Christophe Maillot
Cendrillon
(Cinderella)
Roméo et Juliette
(Juliet)
Benjamin Millepied
Appassionata
3 Movements
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
Before After
Justin Peck
In the Countenance of Kings
Year of the Rabbit
Crystal Pite
Emergence
Plot Point
The Seasons’ Canon
Alexei Ratmansky
Don Quixote
(Kitri, Queen of the Dryads, Piccilia)
Pictures at an Exhibition
Jerome Robbins
The Concert
Dances at a Gathering
In the Night
Kent Stowell
Carmina Burana
Cinderella
(Cinderella, Summer)
Nutcracker
(Flora, Peacock)
Swan Lake
(Odette/Odile, Pas de trois)
Price Suddarth
Signature
Twyla Tharp
In the Upper Room
Nine Sinatra Songs
Waiting at the Station
Christopher Wheeldon
After the Rain pas de deux
Carousel (A Dance)
Polyphonia
Tide Harmonic
Original Roles
Alejandro Cerrudo
Memory Glow
Black on Black on Black
Jessica Lang
Ghost Variations
Her Door to the Sky
Let Me Mingle Tears With Thee
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
Khepri
Mark Morris
Kammermusik No. 3
Miles Pertl
Wash of Gray
Alexei Ratmansky
Wartime Elegy
Dwight Rhoden
Catching Feelings
Kiyon Ross
…throes of increasing wonder
Dani Rowe
The Window
(The Woman)
Penny Saunders
Wonderland
