Bio

 

Elena Lozonschi is a Romanian-born actor and theater-maker based in New York City, drawn to work that 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 joins the cast of Hamlet taking on the dual roles of Horatio and Laertes, set to play at Art House Productions in Jersey City, Oct 9 - 26, 2025. Shakespeare's most famous revenge tragedy is re-examined and reconstructed as a cosmic crime thriller taking an existential deep dive toward enlightenment. A high-strung intellectual's life takes a harrowing downward spiral into madness, murder, & the metaphysical when the ghost of his father tasks him with avenging his brutal murder. Forcing him to question what is real and what is hallucination.

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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.