Elyse Mirto

Elyse Mirto is an actress from Detroit who studied classical theater at the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain and holds a BFA in Music Theatre Performance from Western Michigan University. She began her professional career in Chicago at the Goodman Theatre, working under Robert Falls, and later starred at Chicago Shakespeare Rep; in Chicago she also created the part of Sue in Neil LaBute's BASH. Her performance in Nat Cassidy's thriller Any Day Now won her the 2009 York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Actress in a Lead Role, and she was nominated in that category again the following year, when she also made her Off Broadway debut. She has appeared on Los Angeles stages including A Noise Within, where she was a Los Angeles Drama Circle nominee, the Rubicon Theatre, an Ovation nominee, the Geffen Playhouse, Boston Court and the Mark Taper, and has worked on television, commercials, voice overs and audio books.