Adjunct Resources

Elizabeth Wotring-Nelson is Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre and the Adjunct Coordinator at Fairmont State University. She has been a faculty member in the College of Liberal Arts in both adjunct and full-time capacities since 2009. She is also active as a teacher for the FSU Academy for the Arts and directs the Spring musical each year for the Academy’s youth theatre company (Schoolhouse Rock Live, Jr., Into the Woods, Jr., Shrek, Jr., Beauty and the Beast, Jr., and Newsies, Jr.). She has music directed and performed in many musicals with Fairmont State’s Town & Gown Theatre Company and for Masquers including Little Women, Children of Eden, Urinetown, 1940s Radio Hour, Joseph…Dreamcoat, The Rocky Horror Show, and The Sound of Music.

In addition to her work for Fairmont State, she teaches as adjunct at Garrett College in McHenry, MD and serves on the Garrett College Foundation Board of Directors. Elizabeth owns and operates a private voice studio (Nelson Studios) and is a freelance soloist/cantor for area churches, weddings, and funerals. She performed, directed, &/or music directed over 35 productions across 11 years with Theatre On The Lake (TOTL Theatre Company) in McHenry, MD. In addition, she managed the box office and was on the Board of Directors for TOTL from 2009-2020. She has also founded, developed, and taught youth theatre initiatives in the Greater Minneapolis/St. Paul area and Garrett County, MD.

Elizabeth has a B.A in Church Music from Greenville University near St. Louis and attended The Boston Conservatory at Berklee in Boston where she earned her Master of Music degree in Musical Theatre Performance. Elizabeth has worked professionally and regionally as an actor/singer since she was 8 years old and is an active member of the Musical Theatre Educator’s Alliance (MTEA).

Elizabeth lives in Aurora (Preston County), WV with her husband, two kids, and two dogs.