- (1912 - 1935) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1912) Stage Play: Fanny's First Play. Written by George Bernard Shaw. Collier's Comedy Theatre: 16 Sep 1912- Apr 1913 (closing date unknown/256 performances). Cast: Kate Carlyou, Walter Creighton [Broadway debut], Charles Croker-King [Broadway debut], Herbert Dansey, Maurice Elvey, Gladys Harvey, Walter Kingsford, Eva Leonard Boyne, Arnold Lucy [Broadway debut], Lionel Pape, Sydney Paxton, Valentine Penna, Frank Randall, Elisabeth Risdon, Tim Ryley, Quentin Todd. Produced by The Shuberts.
- (1912) Stage Play/ Beauty and the Jacobin. Written by Booth Tarkington. Collier's Comedy Theatre: 29 Nov 1912- 29 Nov 1912 (1 performance). Cast: Maurice Elvey, Walter Kingsford, Eva Leonard Boyne, F.J. Randell, Elisabeth Risdon.
- (1912) Stage Play: The Poetasters of Ispahan. Written by Clifford Bax. Collier's Comedy Theatre: 29 Nov 1912 (1 performance). Cast: Walter Creighton, Maurice Elvey, Charles Francis, Walter Kingsford, Sydney Paxton, Valentine Penna, Elisabeth Risdon.
- (1917) Stage Play: The Morris Dance. Written by Harley Granville-Barker, from the novel "The Wrong Box" by Robert Louis Stevenson. Based on Lloyd Osbourne. Little Theatre: 13 Feb 1917- Mar 1917 (closing date unknown/23 performances). Cast: Richard Bennett, Sidney Blackmer, William Foster, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Ethelbert Hales, Dora Heritage, Isadore Marcil, James W. Morrison, Gerald Oliver-Smith, Robert Rendel, Elisabeth Risdon, John L. Shine, Carl M. Tyng, Peter Woolman, Barry O'Moore. Produced by Winthrop Ames.
- (1917) Stage Play: Misalliance. Written by George Bernard Shaw. Directed by William Faversham. Broadhurst Theatre: 27 Sep 1917- Nov 1917 (closing date unknown/52 performances). Cast: Macklyn Arbuckle (as "John Tarleton"), George Fitzgerald (as "Lord Summerhays"), Warburton Gamble (as "Joey Percival, an aviator"), Mrs. Edmund Gurney (as "Mrs. Tarleton"), Katherine Kaelred (as "Lina Szczepanowska"), Philip Leigh (as "Bentley Summerhays"), Frederick Lloyd (as "Johnny Tarleton"), Malcolm Morley (as "Gunner"), Elisabeth Risdon (as "Hypatia Tarleton"). Produced by William Faversham.
- (1918) Stage Play: Seven Days' Leave. Written by Walter Howard. Park Theatre: 17 Jan 1918- Jun 1918 (closing date unknown/156 performances). Cast: Percy Ames, Alice Belmore, H. Cooper Cliffe, Miriam Collins, Alfred Dupont, Edwin Forsberg, Galwey Herbert, J. Fred Holloway, Frank E. Jamison, William J. Kelly, Frederick Perry, Elisabeth Risdon, Edwin Taylor, Evelyn Varden.
- (1918) Stage Play: Muggins. Written by Frank J. Gregory. Fulton Theatre: 10 Jun 1918- 29 Jun 1918 (unknown performances). Cast: Harrison Brockbank, Betty Daintry, Gertrude Dallas, Rene Delting, Hal Forde, James Harrod, Whitford Kane, Marion Kerby, Auriol Lee, Edward Martindel, Charles Meredith, Agnes Patterson, Edith Taliaferro, Jean Webb, Mrs. Thomas A. Wise. Produced by Actors' and Authors' Theatre, Inc.
- (1918) Stage Play: Humpty Dumpty.
- Dear Brutus (1918).
- Footloose (1920). Drama. Written by Zoe Akins from "For-get-me-not" by Herman Merivale and F.C. Grove. Directed by O.P. Heggie (also appearing as "Barrato"). Greenwich Village Theatre: 10 May 1920- Jun 1920 (closing date unknown/32 performances). Cast: Tallulah Bankhead (as "Rose de Brissac"), Lillian Brennard, Robert Casadesus, Elisabeth Risdon (as "Alice Verney"), Emily Stevens, Norman Trevor (as "Sir Horace Welby"), John Webster. Produced by George C. Tyler.
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- The Silver Cord (1926). Written by Sidney Howard. Directed by John Cromwell. John Golden Theatre: 20 Dec 1926- Mar 1927 (112 performances). Cast: Barbara Bruce (as "Maid"), Elliot Cabot (as "David"), Laura Hope Crews (as "Mrs. Phelps"), Margalo Gillmore (as "Hester"), Earle Larrimore (as "Robert"), Elisabeth Risdon (as "Christina"). Produced by The Theatre Guild.
- Right You Are If You Think You Are (1927). Written by Luigi Pirandello. Directed by Philip Moeller. Guild Theatre: 2 Mar 1927- Apr 1927 (closing date unknown/48 performances). Cast: J.W. Austin (as "The Prefect"), Morris Carnovsky (as "Agazzi"), Phyllis Connard, Laura Hope Crews (as "Amalia"), Dorothy Fletcher, Philip Leigh (as "A Gentleman"), Philip Loeb (as "Centuri"), Armina Marshall (as "Signora Ponza"), Reginald Mason (as "Laudisi"), Maurice McRae, Beryl Mercer (as "Signora Frola"), Elisabeth Risdon (as "Signora Sirellil"), Edward G. Robinson (as "Ponza"), Henry Travers (as "Sirelli"), Helen Westley (as "Signora Cini"). Produced by The Theatre Guild.
- The Springboard (1927). Comedy. Written by Alice Duer Miller. Directed by Daniel Frawley. Mansfield Theatre: 12 Oct 1927- Nov 1927 (closing date unknown/37 performances). Cast: Sidney Blackmer (as "Victor Hazen"), Walter Connolly (as "George Bayard"), Thaddeus Gray, Jane Houston, Madge Kennedy (as "Mary McVittey"), Mary Marble, John Maroney, Adelaide Prince, Elisabeth Risdon (as "Rhoda Brice"). Produced by Charles L. Wagner.
- We Never Learn (1928). Written by Daisy Wolf. Directed by William B. Friedlander. Eltinge 42nd Street Theatre: 23 Jan 1928- Feb 1928 (closing date unknown/24 performances). Cast: Alfred Cross (as "Robert Kenyon"), Brandon Evans (as "Weldon Deane"), Austin Fairman (as "David Willard"), Mabel Kroman (as "Isabelle Warren"), Charles La Torre (as "Drew"), Robert Lynn (as "Jack Warren"), Claude Main (as "George Barlow"), Wanda Perry (as "Constance Bruce"), Elisabeth Risdon (as "Helen Bruce"), Richard Terry (as "Romero Royce"), Sheila Trent (as "Katy"), Charles Trowbridge (as "James Bruce"), Estelle Winwood (as "Laura Deane"). Produced by William B. Friedlander.
- Uncle Tom's Cabin (1933). Melodrama. Written by George L. Aiken. Musical program directed by Harry Gilbert. Revised by A.E. Thomas. Based on the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Musical program prepared by Edward T. Emery. Directed by Earle Boothe. Alvin Theatre: 29 May 1933- Jun 1933 (closing date unknown/24 performances). Cast: Fay Bainter (as "Topsy"), Thomas Chalmers (as "Simon Legree"), Lyster Chambers (as "Haley"), Joseph Cummings Chase, George Christie (as "Mr. Wilson"), Russel Crouse (as "Ensemble"), Owen Culbertson, Francis H. Day, Pedro de Cordoba (as "George Harris"), Elizabeth Dewing, Malcolm Duncan, Mrs. Edward D. Dunn, Edward Delaney Dunn, Minnie Dupree (as "Aunt Ophelia"), Edwin T. Emery (as "Second Bidder"), Essie Emery, Sylvia Field (as "Marie"), William Fisher, Harry Gilbert, Ernest Glendinning (as "St. Clare"), Eleanor Goodrich, Harold Gould (as "Skeggs, the Auctioneer"), Harry Gresham (as "Quimbo"), Amy Groesbeck, Burford Hampden, Oswald Hering, Richard Hoffmann, Frederick Jagel, John C. King, John Knight, John Kramer, Wright Kramer, Ben Lackland (as "Sambo"), Roy Le May, Nancy Levering, Gene Lockhart (as "Gumption Cute"), Kathleen Lockhart (as "Ensemble"), Cecilia Loftus (as "Aunt Chloe"), Alice MacKenzie, Edward McNamara (as "Phineas Fletcher"), Oswald Marshall, Kate Mayhew (as "Aunt Hagar"), Harold McGee, Samuel Merwin, Earl Mitchell, T.H. Montgomery, John Daly Murphy (as "Marks"), Patricia O'Connell, Janice O'Connell, Patricia O'Connell, Paul Parks, George Riddell, Elisabeth Risdon (as "Eliza"), Lois Shore, Florence Short, Otis Skinner (as "Uncle Tom"), James Stanley, Harold Staton, W.B. Taylor, Raymond Thayer, Grenville Vernon, John Barnes Wells, Frank Wilcox (as "George Fisk"). Produced by The Players Club.
- Big Hearted Herbert (1934). Comedy.
- Laburnum Grove (1935). Comedy. Written by J.B. Priestley. Directed by Lewis Allen. Booth Theatre: 14 Jan 1935- May 1935 (closing date unknown/131 performances). Cast: George Anderson (as "Joe Fletten"), Melville Cooper (as "Bernard Baxley"), Reynolds Denniston, Lloyd Gough, Edmund Gwenn (as "George Redfern"), Molly Pearson, Margery Pickard, Elisabeth Risdon (as "Mrs. Lucy Baxley"). Produced by Gilbert Miller and Lee Shubert.
- The Enchanted April (1925). Comedy.
- The Nightcap (1921). Comedy/mystery. Written and directed by Guy Bolton and Max Marcin. 39th Street Theatre: 15 Aug 1921- Nov 1921 (closing date unknown/96 performances). Cast: Halbert Brown (as "Coroner Watrous"), Ronald Colman (as "Charles"), Wilson Day, H. Dudley Hawley (as "Lester Knowles"), Walter Horton, Grant Mills, John Daly Murphy (as "Jerry Hammond"), Jerome Patrick, Jack Raffael, Elisabeth Risdon (as "Mrs. Lester Knowles"), Flora Sheffield, W.W. Shuttleworth, John Wray (as "Policeman"). Produced by Max Marcin. Note: Filmed as Secrets of the Night (1924).
- Cock O' the Roost (1924). Comedy. Written by Rida Johnson Young. Liberty Theatre: 13 Oct 1924- Nov 1924 (closing date unknown/24 performances). Cast included: Lionel Bevans, Harry Davenport, Edward Donnelly, Sylvia Field, Donald Foster, Desmond Gallagher, Allen Lee, Tracy L'Engle, Purnell Pratt (as "Henry Barron"), Elisabeth Risdon (as "Mrs. Dawn"), Agnes Roslyn (as "Mildred"), Katherine Wilson. Produced by The Dramatists Theatre, Inc.
- Thrills (1925). Drama. Written by William Francis Dugan. Directed by Henry Herbert. Comedy Theatre: 16 Apr 1925- Apr 1925 (closing date unknown/12 performances). Cast: Helen Carew (as "Flo Alden"), Alice Fleming, Elisabeth Risdon (as "Mozella Benson"), John M. Sullivan, William L. Thorne, Ramsey Wallace, Yamamota. Produced by Dugan Producing Corporation.
- Artistic Temperament (1924). Comedy.
- Heartbreak House (1920). Comedy. Written by George Bernard Shaw. Directed by Dudley Digges. Garrick Theatre: 10 Nov 1920- Feb 1921 (closing date unknown/125 performances). Cast: Dudley Digges (as "Boss Mangan"), Fred Eric, Albert Perry (as "Capt. Shotover"), Elisabeth Risdon (as "Ellie Dunn"), Erskine Sanford (as "Mazzini Dunn"), Effie Shannon (as "Hesione Hushabye"), Henry Travers (as "Burglar"), Lucile Watson (as "Lady Utterword"), Helen Westley (as Nurse Guiness"). Produced by The Theatre Guild.
- (1923) Stage Play: The Lady. Melodrama. Written by Martin Brown. Empire Theatre: 4 Dec 1923- Feb 1924 (closing date unknown/85 performances). Cast: Nera Badaloni, Rudolpho Badaloni, Hugh Brooke, Stephane De Leger, Junior Durkin, Austin Fairman (as "Leonard St. Aubyns"), Edward Fetbroth, John Fulco, Ethelbert Hales, Herbert Heywood, Frank Horton, Teddy King, Edward La Roche (as "The Loafer/Josef") [Broadway debut], Virginia Langdon, Marcel Le Mans, Sylvia Little, Irby Marshall (as "Lady Dido Huntington"), Marcel Morelli, Victor Morley, Mary Nash, Clement O'Loghlen, Brandon Peters, Cecelia Radcliffe, Elisabeth Risdon (as "Fanny Le Clare"), Ludmila Toretzka (as "Madame Blanche"), Leonard Willey, Betty Williams, Adelaide Wilson. Produced by A.H. Woods.
- (1925) Stage Play: Lovely Lady.
- (1933) Stage Play: Uncle Tom's Cabin. Melodrama. Written by G. L. Aiken. Musical program directed by Harry Gilbert. Revised by A.E. Thomas. Based on the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Musical program prepared by Edward T. Emery. Directed by Earle Boothe. Alvin Theatre: 29 May 1933- Jun 1933 (closing date unknown/24 performances). Cast: Fay Bainter (as "Topsy"), Thomas Chalmers (as "Simon Legree"), Lyster Chambers (as "Haley"), Joseph Cummings Chase, George Christie (as "Mr. Wilson"), Russel Crouse (as "Ensemble"), Owen Culbertson, Francis H. Day, Pedro de Cordoba (as "George Harris"), Elizabeth Dewing, Malcolm Duncan, Mrs. Edward D. Dunn, Edward Delaney Dunn (as "Ensemble") [final Broadway role], Minnie Dupree (as "Aunt Ophelia"), Edwin T. Emery (as "Second Bidder"), Essie Emery, Sylvia Field (as "Marie"), William Fisher, Harry Gilbert, Ernest Glendinning (as "St. Clare"), Eleanor Goodrich, Harold W. Gould (as "Skeggs, the Auctioneer"), Harry Gresham (as "Quimbo"), Amy Groesbeck, Burford Hampden, Oswald Hering, Richard Hoffmann, Frederick Jagel, John C. King, John Knight, John Kramer, Wright Kramer, Ben Lackland (as "Sambo"), Roy Le May, Nancy Levering, Gene Lockhart (as "Gumption Cute"), Kathleen Lockhart (as "Ensemble"), Cecilia Loftus (as "Aunt Chloe"), Alice MacKenzie, Edward McNamara (as "Phineas Fletcher"), Oswald Marshall, Kate Mayhew (as "Aunt Hagar"), Harold McGee, Samuel Merwin, Earl Mitchell, T.H. Montgomery, John Daly Murphy (as "Marks"), Patricia O'Connell, Janice O'Connell, Patricia O'Connell, Paul Parks, George Riddell, Elisabeth Risdon (as "Eliza"), Lois Shore, Florence Short, Otis Skinner (as "Uncle Tom"), James Stanley, Harold Staton, W.B. Taylor, Raymond Thayer, Grenville Vernon, John Barnes Wells, Frank Wilcox (as "George Fisk"). Produced by The Players Club.
- (1928) She acted in Sidney Howard's play, "The Silver Cord," at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts with Laura Hope Crews and Robert Montgomery in the cast.
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