Elise is one of Australia’s leading voice over artists and a Matilda Award-winning actor, having been recognised for her outstanding contribution to Queensland Theatre on three occasions. She is also one of Queensland’s most exciting new writers. Her play Crèche and Burn was a major hit as part of La Boite’s 2005 season. This was followed by a 10-week national tour in 2006.

Elise was one of the actors and writers for the Channel 7 comedy pilot 37 Skit Row and wrote the critically acclaimed Ditto, for La Boite’s Shock of the New Festival. She performed her Cabaret show Are My Balls Still in the Air? for the Brisbane Cabaret Festival in 2004. Elise received funding from Arts Queensland and The Australia Council to write and develop her one-woman show, The Romany Project that was seen at Metro Arts in 2004 as part of the Year of Independents.

Elise is an acting graduate from University of Southern Queensland and an Honours and Masters graduate from Queensland University of Technology. She also trained with Shakespeare & Company in Boston, USA. She has received three Goldie Awards for her voice over work.

Theatre acting credits include Long Gone Lonesome Cowgirls, The Mayne Inheritance, Secret Bridesmaids’ Business, Sweet Phoebe, Two, Clark In Sarajevo (La Boite), Summer Rain, Explosions and Modd Madame Butterfly (Queensland Theatre Company), The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Harvest Rain), Honour and Mill Fire (On Giants Shoulders), and Alive at Williamstown Pier, Jerusalem, Oleanna, The Big Picture, The Maids and The Vagina Monologues (green).

TV includes: Mortified, All Saints, Home and Away, Flipper, Fire 1, Fire 2, Medivac and Channel 7’s 37 Skit Row. Films include: The Underdog’s Tale, Love Weights, Top Blokes, The File on Doti Khan, The People, On The Level, Sun Kisses, No Man’s Land and Mobile Love.