Listener Poet,
Co-Founding Team
Elizabeth Pringle explores language and the human experience through theatre and film, arts and media education, leadership coaching, and professional development. She works in theatre and media as a playwright/lyricist, actress, teacher, and director and has written and directed plays, film scripts, musicals, as well as adapted full-length operas and zarzuelas.
She has collaborated with groups, large and small, in urban and rural areas, to create original poems, plays, and films that reveal the unique and universal nature of our shared humanity.
Elizabeth is a Listener Poet and produced The Good Listening Podcast.
Instead of the usual Listener Poet format – listening to one person’s story and responding with a framing narrative and custom poem – I was invited to create a group poem for forty participants at the Arts in Healing luncheon, hosted by the Inova Health Foundation in partnership with the board.
This past year, he was a right defensive tackle on his school football team, but for the past two and a half years, he’d been caring for his dad, who had cancer.
He brought the tools of mindfulness and self-care to medical students, many of whom had been studying all this past year, 10 hours a day, day after day, in isolation.
