Bio

 

Elena Lozonschi is a Romanian-born actor and theater-maker based in New York City, drawn to work that asks urgent questions and lives in the tension between beauty and discomfort.

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She grew up surrounded by old tales, protest songs, and the echo of folk traditions where stories weren't just entertainment—they were lifelines. That early relationship to story shapes everything she does today. Whether playing a woman alone on stage unraveling a painful truth (Girls & Boys), speaking Romanian as Lyubov Andreyevna Ranevskaya in a multilingual Cherry Orchard, or crafting ensemble-driven physical theater, Elena seeks work that provokes, reveals, and moves.

 

​She recently appeared in Lists of Promise, a devised aerial-theater piece at Theater for the New City that traced women’s erasure and endurance through archival lists. Critics praised the ensemble’s ability to “say the unspeakable” through motion and metaphor. Elena’s role embodied both rebellion and care—central themes in her artistic journey.

 

Up next, Elena will portray Borachio in Much Ado About Nothing at the Vino Theater, embracing the opportunity to crack open the mechanics of power, mischief, and masculinity in Shakespeare’s world. She’ll also play Oma, the family matriarch, in Skeletons—a dark holiday comedy selected for the New York Theater Festival. When a mislabeled party gift of edibles turns a festive gathering upside down, long-buried family secrets erupt, and Oma finds herself at the center of the unraveling chaos.

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Elena trained at the Stella Adler Professional Conservatory and co-founded Béton Brut Productions, a theater company focused on raw, experimental performance and reimagined classics. Her ongoing artistic mission: to create space for complexity, contradiction, and presence—onstage and off.