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By Improper Staff Aug. 5, 2016
Lizzie Milanovich
Emerson alum Lizzie Milanovich’s first professional show after college was the scariest piece she’s worked on, and not because of its mouthful of a title: It Felt Empty When the Heart Went at First But It Is Alright Now. “It was a two-and-a-half-hour play, most of which I was on stage by myself, and I had to do the whole thing in a Serbian accent,” the 24-year-old says of Theatre on Fire’s raw drama, which earned her rave reviews. Since then, the actor and writer has seen her own words come to life on stage in Fresh Ink Theatre Company’s December production of It’s Not About My Mother, originally written for her senior thesis, and appeared in Brown Box Theatre Project’s touring production of The Taming of the Shrew. “Brown Box brings theater to people and communities that would normally not have access to theater, and working with them is some of the most rewarding work I’ve ever done.” The rising star also relished her most recent role in From the Sea, To Somewhere Else, a new work that hit the Boston Center for the Arts in July. “I played a mermaid! Which, like, embarrassingly was a dream come true,” Milanovich says. “For me, it was an identity play that sort of ended with the idea that your identity isn’t something that must be stagnant. It can and will be a thing that ebbs and flows as time goes on and you grow up. Which is true for humans, too, I think, not just mermaids.”
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