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. She was an apprentice with North Carolina Dance Theater and also danced with Pennsylvania Ballet before joining Ballet West II in 2006 and Ballet West in 2007. Ms. Murphy 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.
In addition to her PNB repertory, Ms. Murphy performed leading roles at Ballet West in George Balanchine’s Agon, The Four Temperaments, Serenade, and Stars and Stripes; Willam Christensen’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.
Ms. Murphy 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). Ms. Murphy’s Label Dancewear line of handmade dance apparel is available on Etsy.
Leading Roles
George Balanchine
Agon
Apollo
Coppélia (Dawn, Discord and War)
Diamonds
Emeralds
George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker® (Sugar Plum Fairy, Dewdrop, Coffee, Hot Chocolate)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hermia)
La Source
Stravinsky Violin Concerto
Symphony in C
arms that work
Peter Boal
Giselle (Moyna, Bathilde)
Alejandro Cerrudo
Little mortal jump
Memory Glow*
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
New Suite
One Flat Thing, reproduced
The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude
Kiyon Gaines
Sum Stravinsky
Ronald Hynd
Jiri Kylian
Jessica Lang
Her Door to the Sky*
José Limón
The Moor’s Pavane
Jean-Christophe Maillot
Cendrillon (Cinderella)
Benjamin Millepied
Appassionata
3 Movements
Mark Morris
Kammermusik No. 3*
Matthew Neenan
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa
Before After
Justin Peck
In the Countenance of Kings
Year of the Rabbit
Miles Pertl
Wash of Gray*
Crystal Pite
Plot Point
Alexei Ratmansky
Don Quixote (Kitri, Queen of the Dryads, Piccilia)
Pictures at an Exhibition
Jerome Robbins
Dances at a Gathering
In the Night
Penny Saunders
Wonderland*
F O I L*
Kent Stowell
Carmina Burana
Cinderella (Cinderella, Summer)
Nutcracker (Flora, Peacock)
Swan Lake (Odette/Odile, Pas de trois)
Price Suddarth
Signature
Twyla Tharp
Nine Sinatra Songs
Waiting at the Station
Christopher Wheeldon
Carousel (A Dance)
Polyphonia
Tide Harmonic
Robyn Mineko Williams
The Trees The Trees*
* Originated role