After graduating from Wimbledon School of Art, Liz won an Arts Council Bursary, which took her to the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry. Since then Liz has worked extensively in theatre.Her freelance work includes: "The Grapes of Wrath" (RADA); "Death and the Maiden", "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream", (The Dukes, Lancaster); and "'Tis Pity She's A Whore" and "Man in the Moon" (Liverpool Playhouse). More recently Liz has designed William Nicholson's "Katherine Howard" (Chichester Festival Theatre); Brian Friel's "Give Me Your Answer Do", Philip Ridley's "Apocalyptica" (Hampstead Theatre ); Kevin Hood's "So Special" and Abi Morgan's "Fast Food" (Royal Exchange, Manchester).
At the Prague Quadrennial in 1999, UNESCO awarded Liz a prize for promotion of Visual Arts. Since then, Liz has designed Alan Plater's "Peggy For You" (Hampstead Theatre, Comedy Theatre and tour), Fiona Padfield's "Snapshots", Simon Robson's "The Ghost Train Tattoo" and "As You Like It" and "Hedda Gabler" (Royal Exchange, Manchester); Philip Ridley's "Vincent River", and Steve Waters' "After The Gods" (Hampstead Theatre); Billy Roche's "Cavalcaders" (The Tricycle Theatre); Conor McPherson's "Dublin Carol" and Ronald Harwood's adaptation of "See You Next Tuesday" (The Gate, Dublin); Brian Friel's "The Bear and Afterplay" (The Gate, Dublin and Spoleto Festival, Charleston, South Carolina) and Harold Pinter's "One For The Road" and "A Kind of Alaska" (The Gate, Dublin and The Lincoln Centre, New York).