Author Bio

ELIZABETH SHARLAND IS AN ACTRESS, producer, playwright and novelist, best-known for her informative and entertaining non-fiction books about theatre - and for her popular and long-running show Love From Shakespeare to Coward, an anthology of plays poems, letters and diaries around the theme of love, based on six years in the West End using over 200 actors in showcases.

She has lectured at the Harvard Club in New York, as well as the University Club, the National Arts Club, the Players Club and the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. In London, she has lectured at the National Portrait Gallery and the Concert Artistes Association.

Her book Behind the Doors of Notorious Covent Garden is a colourful guide to the cultural heart of London, including a history of its many theatres and restaurants. Passionate Pilgrimages is a fascinating look at the homes and studios of legendary composers, artists and writers across Europe, while her other books include A Theatrical Feast: Sugar and Spice in London's Theatreland, Love From Shakespeare to Coward and The British on Broadway.

Elizabeth is now the Food and Entertainment Editor of the Palm Beach Society Magazine, reviewing restaurants and theatres in Palm Beach, Florida. She trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and joined the Old Vic Company to tour Australia. She has had plays produced in London and New York, formed an English-speaking theatre company in Paris, worked for Yul Brynner on Broadway, and also lectures regularly on the Queen Mary 2, between London and New York. She has one son, and travels frequently between Europe and America.