Education
She was educated at Benton Park School and after A-Levels Elizabeth left Leeds to study at The Academy of Live and Recorded Arts (ALRA) drama school in London.
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Career
Since then her theatre credits have included performances at the Old Vic and the Stephen Joseph. After graduating from ALRA, Keates set up LK Productions Theatre Company, which produced 5 annual touring productions, employing over 30 actors. Alongside her role as Artistic Director of LK Productions, Keates continued working as an actress.
Foreign the British Broadcasting Corporation on Slave Island, (the story of the African Burial Ground) Chariot Queen, in which she played the title role, Blood of the Vikings and Meet the Ancestors - Bones in a Barnyard.
Film work includes Boudica (Indigo Films Los Angeles) and the award winning film The Tomb Robbery Papyrus: notes of a past, which opened in London on 17 April 2011. Keates"s name can be found in the records held at the British Film Catalogue for her work with White Lyon Films.
In 2012 Keates starred in the York Theatre Royal production of The Railway Children (The Mike Kenny (writer) adaptation) playing opposite Marshall Lancaster in the role of Mrs Perks. Keates had previously worked with director Damian Cruden at York Theatre Royal in Pygmalion.
In July 2011 Keates reprised her role as Mrs Perks in The Railway Children.
