ELIZABETH SHARLAND is an actress, producer, playwright and novelist, best-known for her informative and entertaining non-fiction books about theatre stars and for her popular and long-running show Love From Shakespeare to Coward - an anthology of plays poems, letters and diaries around the theme of love, based on six years in the West End using over 200 actors in showcases.

Her novel The Best Actress, centerd on the love life of an Oscar-winning actress, describes its central character's climb to stardom via drama school, the National Theatre and Broadway. Her other books include A Theatrical Feast: Sugar and Spice in London’s Theatreland, Love From Shakespeare to Coward and The British on Broadway.

Elizabeth trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and joined the Old Vic Company to tour Australia. She has had plays produced in London and New York, formed an English-speaking theatre company in Paris, worked for Yul Brynner on Broadway. She also lectures regularly on the Queen Elizabeth 2, between London and New York. She is married to a Dublin-born psychiatrist and has one son and travels frequently between Europe and America.

For more information:  www.sharland.com