Elizabeth "Betsy" Parrish[1] (February 10, 1925 – December 16, 2022)[2] was an American actress, singer and acting teacher.
Parrish was long affiliated with the Stella Adler Studio of Acting.
Other teaching credits include: Circle in the Square, High School of Performing Arts, Metropolitan Opera Studio, Yale Drama School (Associate Professor Adjunct), American Academy of Dramatic Art, and the Eugene O'Neill International Theatre Institute.
[2] She was a founding member of the Harold Clurman Laboratory Theatre Company, having performed in Uncle Vanya, Hot L Baltimore, and Macbeth.
[3] In 2013, aged 88, she teamed up with Canadian dancer and choreographer Margie Gillis to create a piece based on the poems of Emily Dickinson called Bulletins from Immortality, directed by Paola Styron, which they performed nationally and internationally.