Singer, pianist, composer, music director, ELIZABETH DOYLE, was a featured guest on legendary Marian McPartland’s National Public Radio show, “Piano Jazz, and the magnet for many years at Chicago’s famed Pump Room, the Drake Hotel, Convito Italiano, the Palmer House, the Swiss Hotel, Catch 35, the Whitehall and the Fairmont Metropole.
As a composer, she is an award-winning ASCAP member with musicals “Fat Tuesday,” “Alice In Analysis”, “The Virginian” and “Sleepy Hollow” produced in California and the Midwest. “Sleepy Hollow” was included in the prestigious Disney/ASCAP new musical workshop in California, and broke attendance records for Theatre-Hikes Chicago. She has performed in two ASCAP new music showcases in New York, and had her material featured in the Chicago Humanities Festival, at Park West, Drury Lane Water Tower, Bailiwick, Maxim’s, Victory Gardens and in a Preston Bradley program honoring Chicago songwriters. Her single songs have been sung by singers such as Kat Taylor, Suzy Petri, Patty Morabito, Mary Monica Thomas, Hilary Feldman, Lennie Watts, Julie Reyburn, Ginny Bales, Sean Krill and D. C. Anderson.
With Steppenwolf’s Bob Breuler and librettist Bill Thomas, she is co-creating a music theater piece entitled “Duo.” “The White City,” a musical about Daniel Burnham and the 1893 Colombian Exposition was presented at the Writers Bloc Festival and at IIT sponsored by the Mies Van der Rohe Society fall 2009.
She composed an art song cycle entitled “Nature and the Seasons” with composer/pianist/singer Philip Seward which premiered spring of 2009. Doyle also wrote a chamber work “The Trial,” performed in Amsterdam and heard on Dutch radio.
A 2007 After Dark Award recipient for cabaret performance, her solo shows have included “Hot Jazz Euro Style” at Davenport’s, “Hollywood Blondes” at New York’s Metropolitan Room, “Dakota Blonde: The Lyrics of Peggy Lee” at Skokie Theatre, a World War II cabaret at the Dank Haus and “Not Just a Boys Club: Women’s Contributions to the Great American Songbook” at the North Lakeside Jazz Supper Club night. Her group shows have included “LeGrand Night” at the Wilmette Theatre, a Richard Rodgers tribute at the Storefront Theater, a Johnny Mercer show at Drury Lane Water Tower Place Theater and a Blossom Dearie tribute at the Skokie Theater. She has also performed in Paris, Duesseldorf and Wiesbaden, Germany. She has two CD’s available, “Elizabeth Doyle” and “Time Flies.” Visit www.cdbaby.com and www.itunes.com.
She has music-directed four musicals for Emerald City Theater Company including the Covert/Riley holiday production “Hansel and Gretel” (the cast was featured in Chicago’s Festival of Lights broadcast nationwide on ABC-TV) and the Goers/Carderelli penned “Cinderella” presented spring 2009. She is currently music-directing “Summer On the Seine,” a jazz musical featuring the art songs of Gabriel Faure with staged readings August 2010 at Theater Building Chicago.