Lizdelise is an interdisciplinary, gender queer artist based in Philadelphia. Their writing centers queer joy, embraces the inevitability of grief, and makes you shake your 🍑. 

Lizdelise was a 2025 Jentel resident and a 2024 recipient of the Recording Fund. As a part of the Recording Fund, their song “Hotel Pool” was featured in Rolling Stone AU.  Selected tracks from their album, I Swore I Heard You Laughing were featured on the playlists Rough Trade Recommends and NPR’s New Music Friday. Their track “Someone Who Looks a Lot Like You” was featured in Paste Magazine. Lizdelise’s track “Forever” was featured on the CW’s Republic of Sarah.

Lizdelise’s work as a sound artist has been featured on NPR’s Invisibilia, PBS, and at the Smithsonian Hirshorn. Their film scores have been heard at Cannes Short Film Festival, CamerIMAGE Festival, Busan New Wave Film Fest, and The New York Indie Short Awards. They’ve toured as lead guitarist with Canadian band, Housewife, opening for Paulo Nutini on their US tour. 

In their work as a company musician with David Dorfman Dance and collaborator with New York artist, Yara Travieso, Lizdelise has performed at Joe's Pub, Lincoln Center, BRIC, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Their score for Fullout Formula contemporary circus premiered at the 2025 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

For the last decade, Lizdelise has worked as a teaching artist with Philadelphia non-profit, Build-a-Bridge International, whose mission is to transform lives through art-making through trauma-informed, arts-based workshops.

Press

Influenced by their work over the past decade with David Dorman Dance, Lizzy found themself being less precious on I Swore I Heard You Laughing than in their past work, focusing on cohesion and collaboration…an appreciation of the subtle details of the production and songwriting choices they found themselves making in the studio, leading to a deeper admiration of the music they were creating on all levels.Lyrically, Lizzy continues the exploration of self that they began on Body, contemplating their newfound queerness, their sexuality and their gender. Their ability to face a wide range of emotions and reflect on them with compassion for themselves and those around them make I Swore I Heard You Laughing a gorgeously empathetic listen, with plenty of space for the audience to connect with the lyrics amidst the lush, layered sounds. Talia Miller (Rough Trade)

I’ve seen a lot of bands play looper sets, but never one like this…pulling the audience into a collective, mesmerized trance that was difficult to break through. A silence fell over us all so heavily as we watched Lizdelise…It was ethereal and psychedelic…[their] new LP I Swore I Heard You Laughing [is] set to drop via Sheer Luck Records on September 15th...“I’ve been realizing I’ve been making excuses for why I’m stuck, blaming other people for being in my way, holding me back. But it’s always been me, which also means that I have control to change it”. Brittany Deitch (Paste Magazine)

with David Dorfman Dance

Dorfman’s new piece “(A) Way Out of My Body” frets and wallows in the predicament of having a body and the desire to escape it. To a tuneful score played by the singer-songwriter Elizabeth de Lise and a house band, the choreography, for a cast of seven, stays in Dorfman’s signature mode of sincere self-hurling and tender support. The choreographer, now in his sixties, throws himself around while talking about his mother and multiple sclerosis.(N.Y.U. Skirball; April 22-23.). Brian Seibert (The New Yorker)

David Dorfman Meditates on Love and Loss in ‘Come, and Back Again’ (The Washington Post)

A Search for Reconciliation from the Mideast to America (The New York Times)