Elizabeth Ostler is a Brooklyn-based theater-maker, specializing in directing and puppetry and a creativity coach. She is the creator of Communal Theater, an ideological approach to creating theater rooted in the belief that theater should be a communion between the audience and the theater event. She is the founder and Storyteller-in-Chief of Life’s Echoes. She has been creating theater for over twenty years with various theaters in New York and Utah. Liz holds a MFA in theater directing from Brooklyn College and a BA in liberal arts from Sarah Lawrence College.