Elizabeth Reaser, of "Twilight" and "Grey's Anatomy," Steers Back to the Stage in How I Learned to Drive
"Twilight" vampire Elizabeth Reaser makes a U-turn back to the stage in the 15th anniversary Off-Broadway revival of How I Learned to Drive.
Elizabeth Reaser is hell on wheels. "I started stealing my parents' car and my friends' parents' cars in the middle of the night when I was ten, and we would just joyride," she recalls. "I was such trouble. By the time I went to driver's ed, I already knew what I was doing."
Driven by the same childlike fearlessness, Reaser, 36, is gearing up for the Off-Broadway revival of Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive, opening Feb. 13 following previews at Second Stage Theatre. Reaser stars as Li'l Bit, the sexually abused narrator of the Pulitzer Prize–winning memory play. The darkly comic coming-of-age drama follows a young girl whose alcoholic Uncle Peck (two-time Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz) crosses the line during a series of intimate driving lessons.
After earning an Independent Spirit Award nomination for the film "Sweet Land" and an Emmy nomination for her recurring role on "Grey's Anatomy," Reaser has become most widely known — cue the screaming tweens — as Esme, matriarch of the Cullen vampire clan, in the supernaturally popular "Twilight" films. Currently appearing opposite Charlize Theron and Patrick Wilson in "Young Adult," she returns to the New York stage for the first time since The Winter's Tale at Classic Stage Company in 2003. "Being a theatre actress was always my dream, and I've really missed it," says Reaser, who studied drama at Juilliard. "When this opportunity came out of nowhere, it blew me away." 
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