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Elizabeth's CONTACT:    [email protected]
Elizabeth is 'rep'd' for her film & TV scripts by her Script Manager:
TAMMY HUNT: Partner / Manager
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For Tonya & Nancy licensing, bookings, info:
TONYA & NANCY: THE ROCK OPERA, LLC
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Contact info for Producers for A Four-Sided Bed film via:
www.afoursidedbedfilm.com
(producers: David Ball and Amy Carpenter Scott/Creatrixfilms)
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                                  E's BIO NOTE
Elizabeth writes fiction and scripts. She was born in PA and grew up in SC, KY and AZ.  Her father wrote hundreds of published Letters to the Editor, giving Elizabeth her passion for politics.  Her mother was a Librarian who loved both books and theater, two of Elizabeth's creative passions.  Elizabeth started writing with her sister, in the wilds of South Carolina, where the two 'broadcast' (on walkie talkies) a radio Soap Opera called 'What A Way to Live.'  Her first publication came when she was 18 and had a short story accepted by the national magazine Redbook.  After graduating from Oberlin College, Elizabeth worked for several years in Special Education, first at a state Institution and later at schools for Autistic students.  Her experiences shaped her earliest published short stories.

After years of happily writing fiction, including multiple books, Elizabeth returned to her first love of script-writing in 2006.  Elizabeth's and Michael Teoli's Rock Opera, TONYA & NANCY THE ROCK OPERA-- as well as her and Abigail Al-Doory Cross’ opera, TONYA AND NANCY: THE OPERA-- have been produced multiple times to widespread media coverage.  Two short films produced from Elizabeth's work have screened at Festivals.  I'LL SHOW YOU MINE, a feature film she co-wrote with David Shields and Tiffany Louquet, is a Duplass Brothers Production film, released in 2023 in select theaters and widely via VOD to home screens.  Elizabeth has several other feature film scripts in the works.

Elizabeth continues to write fiction as well as scripts, most recently her novels WE GOT HIM and GIRL HELD IN HOME. Her previous books are CELEBRITIES IN DISGRACE, a novella and stories; A FOUR-SIDED BED, a novel nominated for an American Library Association Book Award and in development as a feature film; MY BODY TO YOU, a story collection that won the Iowa Short Fiction Prize, judged by James Salter. Elizabeth's theater works have drawn national and worldwide media attention.

Her short stories have appeared in magazines such as PLOUGHSHARES, REDBOOK, NEW ENGLAND REVIEW AGNI, and KENYON REVIEW, SOLSTICE and in over a dozen anthologies such as LOVERS and DON'T YOU FORGET ABOUT ME. She's won a Boston Literary Death Match.  She received her MFA from Brown University, where she studied with John Hawkes.

Elizabeth has taught fiction writing at Brown, Emerson College, Bennington MFA and the University of Massachusetts. She has taught at Stonecoast MFA (University of Southern Maine) since the program's inception, on faculty for over 15 years. She has co-edited an anthology on Soap Operas (2017) and on Teen Idols- IDOL TALK (2018).  A stage version of Idol Talk premiered in 2019.  Elizabeth's other stage projects include libretto for SkyPaint, a CyberRockOpera and a one-act play, Stolen Girl Song.

Elizabeth served for over a decade on the Executive Board of PEN/New England, working on children's literacy events. She has organized literary fundraisers for Obama and Sen. Elizabeth Warren.  She's is a member of Women in Film & Video-NE and a Contributing Editor for Fiction at SOLSTICE magazine.  She's a Co-Chair and Founding Member of Writers for Blue, currently raising money for Kamala Harris.   She teaches Fiction & Scriptwriting at Stonecoast MFA. Elizabeth is an avid Democrat and biker.  She loves music, movies and hanging out with her 'boys'. She lives with her family in Arlington, MA.

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ELIZABETH'S complete creative works-- so far-- are listed below:

ELIZABETH SEARLE
 www.elizabethsearle.net / www.tonyaandnancytherockopera.com / www.afoursidedbedfilm.com
Contact-- Email: [email protected] 
EDUCATION
MA in Fiction, Creative Writing; thesis advisor John Hawkes; Creative Writing Masters Program, 
Brown University
BA in English/Creative Writing: 
Oberlin College

​BOOKS
  • We Got Him (a novel) 
  • New Rivers Press; American Fiction Series paperback original; Fall of 2016  
(published in AudioBook version from Blunderwoman Productions in 2018)

  • Girl Held in Home (a novel) 
  • New Rivers Press; American Fiction Series paperback original; Fall, 2011  
  • eBook editions on Kindle and more from New Rivers Press: Winter, 2011/2012
 
  • Celebrities in Disgrace (a novella and stories) 
  • Graywolf Press, 2001  
  • eBook editions (Kindle, BookNook etc) from PFP/AJAR Contemporaries Press, 2011
 
  • A Four-Sided Bed (a novel) 
  • Graywolf Press, 1998
  • Re-issued in new paperback and eBook editions by PFP/AJAR Contemporaries Press, 2011
 
  • My Body to You (short stories)
  • University of Iowa Press, 1993, hardback original 
  • Winner of the 1992 Iowa Short Fiction Prize (James Salter, judge) 
  • New paperback and Kindle eBook edition from University of Iowa Press, 2011

  • ANTHOLOGIES, co-editor  
  • IDOL TALK: Women Writers on the Teenage Infatuations that Changes their Lives; an anthology on Teen Idols; co-edited by Elizabeth Searle and Tamra Wilson; collection of essays including one by Elizabeth; published by McFarland Press; Summer, 2018.      
  • Soap Opera Confidential: Writers and Soap Insiders on Why We'll Tune In Tomorrow As the World Turns Restlessly by the Guiding Light of Our Lives: co-edited by Elizabeth Searle and Suzanne Strempek Shea; anthology of essays, including Elizabeth's essay: 'Soap Sisters: Young & Restless & Bold & Beautiful;' forthcoming from McFarland Press, 2017  
         ANTHOLOGIES, contributor   
   ~      UNBOUND: Composing Home: an anthology from NEW RIVERS PRESS; Fall 2022
    • Me, My Hair and I: anthology of essays, including "Act Tresses: Hair as Performance Art" by Elizabeth; edited by Elizabeth Benedict; Algonquin Press; September, 2015        
    • Paper Camera: A Half Century with New Rivers Press: Anthology of essays, including essay 'Reality Fiction' by Elizabeth; New Rivers Press; January, 2015
    • Dumped:Women Unfriending Women; Anthology including "Sealed with a 'Kiss'" by Elizabeth; edited by Nina Gaby; SheWrites Press; spring, 2015
    • Knitting Yarns; WW Norton; literary anthology edited by Ann Hood; other contributors include Barbara Kingslover, Jane Smiley, Anita Shreve, Andre Dubus III;  Fall, 2013
    • Talk Show; PFP Press; anthology edited by Jaime Clarke from his interview pieces on authors for Fanzine; Fall, 2013
    • Earlier anthologies:
    • Men Undressed: Women Authors on Male Sexual Experience; OV Press/Dzanc Books; 2011
    • No Near Exit: Authors Choose the Best of Post Road Magazine; Dzanc Books; Spring, 2011
    • Illuminating Fiction: Today's Best Writers of Fiction; edited by Sherry Ellis; Red Hen Press; Spring, 2010
    • Don’t You Forget About Me, edited by Jaime Clarke; creative nonfiction piece “The Scream, With Lipgloss” included; Simon and Schuster; 2007
    • The Darfur Anthology; nonfiction piece, "Letter to Laura" included; ECC Press, 2007
    • Write Now; edited by Sherry Ellis; essay, “Object Lesson” included; Penguin; 2006
    • Out of the Blue/ Writers Unite; Crooked River Press; 2004
    • The Iowa Award anthology; story, “What to Do in an Emergency”; U. of Iowa Press; 2002
    • American Fiction (awards anthology); story, “Another Spineless White Girl;” New Rivers Press, 1995
    • Breaking Up is Hard to Do  Story: “Losing Weight” Crossing Press, 1994
    • The Time of Our Lives  Story: “White Eggplant” Crossing Press, 1993 
    • Lovers  Story: “My Body to You" Crossing Press, 1992 
 SCREENPLAYS and PLAYS
  • I'll Show You Mine- feature film script co-written by Elizabeth and Tiffany Louquet and David Shields; Produced as a Feature Film from Duplass Brothers Productions; released in 2023 in select theaters in LA, Seattle, NYC and more, and via VOD widely on streaming including AmazonPrime, AppleTV, ComcastOnDemand, Vudu and more; directed by Megan Griffiths; starring Poorna Jagannathan and Casey Thomas Brown.  Film premiered at Seattle International Film Festival in April, 2022, drawing national media.  It has screened at Provincetown International Film Festival, Bentonville Film Festival in Arkansas, and in the 46th Frameline Film Festival in San Francisco, Port Townsend Film Festival, and The New Film Festival in NYC.
  • A Four-Sided Bed feature script by Elizabeth; in development with Creatrix Films; screenplay won awards at Massachusetts Independent Film Festival, Hollywood Boulevard Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Awards, and more, most recently in 2023 at Paris Awards Film Fest, with recognition from over 20 contests/festivals, including the Academy Nicholl Fellowships (see Honors)
  • A Four-Sided Bed feature script performed at two full Staged Readings at ReelHeART international Film Festival; the script was featured in a Best Scenes reading at LGBT Toronto & produced as a short film, Sister Kin, which was screened at LGBT Toronto, 2020.
  • FOUR-SIDED, a short film based on Elizabeth's novel, premiered in That Film Festival/Cannes in 2019 and screened at Massachusetts Independent Film Fest and festivals in Pittsburgh, Shanghai and more.  It won awards at Moondance, Vegas Movie Awards and more.  It has been screened at 19 festivals, including: Lonely Wolf International Fest, Sydney World Fest, Paris Awards Film Festival, SensaiFilmFest (award winner), Magic of Cinema Fest in Barcelona and MAGMA Festival in Madrid where it won Best Narrative Short Film; it is forthcoming in Climax Festival (selected for special screening in spring, 2024) and at Cannes World Art festival, 2024.
  • A Four-Sided Bed was first produced as a STAGED READING at ZEPHYR THEATER in Hollywood; produced by Creatrix Films and Amy Carpenter Scott; the performance starred Evan Ross (THE HUNGER GAMES), Gia Mantegna (UNDER THE DOME), Kenny Leu (NCIS) and Lucy Griffiths (TRUE BLOOD; PREACHER).  The second Staged Reading was produced at ReelHeart International Film Festival in Toronto in 2019.  New announcements forthcoming on this ongoing project.
    • Stolen Girl Song: One Act Play (script to be published in 2024 in Ponder Review)
    • Performed at Act One: One Act festival in NY, Long Island City, Off-Off Broadway, 2019
      • Hobart Book Village Festival of Women Writers; performed by Broadway actress Heidi Freise, 2014; Northern Writes New Play Festival; spring, 2013; play premiered in spring, 2013 at Bangor Opera House in Maine; Poet's Theater at the Armory Center for the Arts in Somerville, MA; performed 2013; Performed in excerpt at Poet's Theater in Nov., 2011
    • Celebrities in Disgrace: short film with script co-authored by Elizabeth and Paul Ramsay, adapted from her novella; produced by Bravo Sierra Pictures; Premiered in summer, 2010 as an official film selection at the 20th annual Woods Hole International Film Festival in Cape Cod, MA; screened in 2010-2011 at several film festivals around the country
    • Additional scriptwriting projects include a theater script for A Four-Sided Bed and several  feature film scripts, including LOCK HER UP, winner of the Los Angeles Script and Film Festival, 2023, a finalist in the Stage 32 Female-Driven Script competition, as well as in 2023 Breaking Walls Thriller Script contest and other 2023 contests and festivals: Page Turner Film Festival, Lonely Seal International fest and the Austin Revolution Film Fest (2024).

  • THEATER: ROCK OPERA and OPERA
    • Tonya & Nancy: the Rock Opera: Wrote Book and Lyrics of show; originated the concept.  The show has been produced in NYC, Boston, LA, Portland OR, Chicago and more-including in an award-winning 2020 productions and in 2018 and 2019 concerts in NYC.
    • 2021: Concert Film of Tonya & Nancy at 54Below in NYC available for Streaming on streamingmusicals.com-- a Fundraiser for The Actor's Fund.
    • 2020, TheaterZone production starring Broadway icon, Andrea McArdle, fully produced by TheatreZone and running in FEB, 2020, winner of 4 Broadway World Regional Theater awards.
    • 2019, NYC: TONYA & NANCY: THE ROCK OPERA concert version performed in NYC at the Lucille Lortel Theater, Off Broadway; produced in association with Abingdon Theatre Co., Paul Boghosian and Tony-winning Broadway producer Jim Kierstead (Kinky Boots, Pretty Woman).
    • 2019: IDOL TALK: A Magical Memory Tour of Teen Idols, a theatrical event based on the book IDOL TALK, co-edited by Elizabeth and Tamra Wilson, premiered in May, 2019 with Exit Dance Company at the Firehouse Center for the Performing Arts in Newburyport, MA.
    • 2018: NYC Concert at Feinstein's 54Below on Feb 13, 2018; Broadway Stars Sing Songs from Tonya & Nancy: the Rock Opera; starring Ashley Spencer as TONYA and Tony Nominee Lauren Worsham as NANCY; produced by Paul Boghosian/Harborside Films; concert CD released by Broadway Records in Fall, 2018
    • 2018: Tonya & Nancy: the Rock Opera produced by Ohlook Performing Arts Center in suburban Dallas, TX for a summer run on same bill as Rocky Horror and Hedwig.
    • 2018: Tonya & Nancy: The Opera: The operetta group Mixed Precipitation produced ‘Tonya and Nancy: The Opera’ - a one-act opera with libretto by Elizabeth and music by Abigail Al-Doory Cross- Previews 'on ice' on Lake Harriet/ArtShantiesFest.  Jan & Feb 2018.​
    • 2016/2017: The rock opera played a 6 week run Nov/Dec 2016; produced by Underscore Theater in Chicago at Theater Wit; the show won a Jeff Theater Award for 2016/2017.
    • 2015: The rock opera was produced on Off Broadway as an official full production 'invited show' at the New York Musical Theater Festival (NYMF) 2015; the show had a sold-out extended run Off Broadway at the Pearl Theater Center in July, 2015
    • 2013: Showcase performance in New York City produced by Harborside Films; directed by Kenny Howard; starring Broadway performers Melissa Van Der Schyff & Janine DiVito
    • 2011: full production; produced by Paul Boghosian and Harborside Films in Boston in Jan, Feb. and a Return Engagement in July of 2011 at the American Repertory Theater's Oberon Theater in Harvard Square  
    • 2008: first workshop production; produced by triangle productions and director Don Horn, premiered in Feb. of 2008 in Portland, OR; 6 week extended run; winter/spring, 2008
    • Song Showcases: musical performances from Seven Rabbits on a Pole performed in the Menotomy Concert Series in May, 2015; excerpts from Tonya & Nancy: the Rock Opera featured by LA Playwright's Arena in Hot Night in the City event, spring, 2010; songs from Tonya & Nancy also featured in Boston Cabaret's Songwriter Showcase, 2008; a short excerpt was shown on CBS, The Early Show
    • Tonya & Nancy: the Opera; Elizabeth wrote libretto and originated concept of one-act opera; libretto published in Post Road magazine; opera premiered at American Repertory Theater’s Zero Arrow series in May, 2006; produced by Tufts Music; music by Abigail Al-Doory; the opera was performed in excerpt by Opera Vista in Houston, where it was selected as one of the top three New Operas of the year (2007); a full production was performed in Minneapolis & St. Paul in 2010.  Full production was performed in Minneapolis/St. Paul, produced by Mixed Precipitation in 2014.  Previews were performed at the Art Shanties Project in 2014, outdoors 'on ice.'  A 2018 production was produced, again by Mixed Perciptation.
    • Seven Rabbits on a Pole: an Opera; performed in Act One workshop version at Longy School of Music/Bard College in spring, 2011; music by Pasquale Tassone; libretto adapted by Elizabeth from the John C. Picardi play, which was produced in Boston and NYC.
    • SKYPAINT: A Cyber Rock Opera; music and lyrics by Russell Chudnofsky; Book by Elizabeth; a workshop production of SKYPAINT is in the works.
 
  • SHORT FICTION PUBLICATIONS
    • Solstice Literary Journal: "The Ones Who Are Gone"; Winter, 2024
    • Ponder Review: "Stolen Girl Song (play text);" Winter, 2024
    • Solstice Literary Journal: "The Drama Room"; Winter 2021/22
    • Woven Tale Press: "The Mask of the Red Death" (Summer, 2022)
    • Stonecoast Review: "We Got Him" (novel excerpt): Winter 2015/16
    • Solstice Literary Journal: "The Quiet Car"; Spring, 2014
    • TheGloriaSirens; online magazine: "The Thing About Hinckley": story reprinted, 2014
    • Seattle Review-- "Student Shooter" 2010
    • Roger Magazine-- "And A Dead American" 2010
    • Massachusetts Review--"Hammond Castle" 2009
    • Superstition Review- "From Your Biggest Little Fan" Spring, 2009
    • New England Review--"If You Play Joni Mitchell" Spring, 2008
    • Hayden's Ferry Review-- “When You Watch Me" April, 2008
    • Massachusetts Review-- “Sick Play” January, 2006
    • Other Magazine--“The Thing About Hinckley” summer, 2004
    • Scene Magazine (Boston)-- “Wind-Up Camera" Spring, 2003
    • Genre-- “Pretend Boyfriend” Summer, 2003
    • Ontario Review-- “101” Summer, 2001
    • Michigan Quarterly Review-- “Birthdays” Fall, 2000
    • Chelsea-- “What It’s Worth” Fall, 2000
    • Five Points-- “Memoir of a Soon-to-Be Star” Fall, 1998
    • Ploughshares-- “Why We’re Here” Winter, 1997
    • Boulevard-- “The Young and the Rest of Us” Winter, 1997
    • Agni-- “A Four-Sided Bed” Fall, 1995
    • Boulevard-- “Not Herself” Spring, 1993
    • Kenyon Review-- “My Body to You” Fall, 1992
    • Epoch-- “Round Objects” Winter, 1991
    • Ploughshares-- “White Eggplant” Fall, 1991
    • Epoch-- “Number Eight” Fall, 1991
    • Chelsea-- “What to Do in an Emergency” Fall, 1991
    • California Quarterly-- “Tell Me About It” Fall, 1991
    • Roberts Writing Awards Annual, 1990-- “News” January, 1991
    • Confrontation-- “Give the Gift of Life and Sight” Spring, 1990
    • Epoch-- “Virgins” Winter, 1989
    • California Quarterly-- “Losing Weight” Fall, 1988
    • South Carolina Review-- “ First Most Beautiful Woman in the World” 1988
    • The Greensboro Review-- “Days and Nights” Summer, 1988
    • The Indiana Review-- “How Are You This Evening?” Winter, 1986
    • The Indiana Review-- “Stella” Spring, 1985
    • The Indiana Review-- “Alice Egner” Fall, 1984
    • South Carolina Review-- “Dogs Chase Cars” Spring, 1984
    • Redbook-- “Missing LaDonna” September, 1982
 
  • NONFICTION: BOOK REVIEWS, ESSAYS & ONLINE
  • Guest Post on STAGE 32 Blog; Dec., 2023
  • IMAGINE magazine; feature article I'LL SHOW YOU MINE; July, 2022
  • IMAGINE magazine: feature article SOUNDSTAGE MUSICALS; March, 2020
  • NOW magazine: essay COVID CLASS OF 2020 published, Sept. of 2020
  • Brown University press: short nonfiction piece on Meredith Steinbach, 2020
  • Underscore Theater online: short nonfiction piece by Elizabeth; March 2018
  • Solstice literary magazine: feature interview with Elizabeth; Jan, 2017
    • Solstice literary magazine: essay by Elizabeth published in August, 2015
    • American Book Review; book review by Elizabeth of story collection Psycho Dream Factory; Summer, 2012
    • New Ohio Review; short essay on Virginia Woolf; 2012
    • VIDA/Her Kind; online magazine; featured Guest Author; summer, 2012; also featured as Guest Post author on GloriaSirens blog; 2014.
    • The Nervous Breakdown; online magazine; excerpt and interview with Elizabeth featured; fall, 2011
    • Celebrities in Disgrace blog: Elizabeth's blog was linked by the Huffington Post; it has featured Guest authors such as Leslea Newman, original quotes from stars like Zooey Deshanel and interviews with rockers like Nelson, John Payne and Nikki Sixx of Motley Crue, who Tweeted about the blog; Elizabeth blogged on celeb-related Pop Culture issues.
    • American Book Review; book review; 2005 
    • Post Road:  Feature Interview with Elizabeth; Summer, 2004
    • Improper Bostonian: "Taking The Fall"; essay for Literary Issue. Fall, 2002
    • Post Road; essay: “Black Tickets: Then and Now.” Spring, 2002 
    • Ploughshares; book reviews: Fall, 1997; Winter, 1992; Fall, 1992; Winter, 1991
  • SCRIPT PUBLICATIONS: Libretto for TONYA & NANCY:THE ROCK OPERA published in Post road Magazine and later in the Post Road anthology NO NEAR EXIT (Dzanc Press, 2011); Script for Stolen Girl Song published in The Ponder Review (2024)
 
  • RECOGNITION & AWARDS
  • 2024: Script LOCK HER UP has been recognized in 11 competitions, including *Best Thriller Script at New York International Film Awards; March, 2024 *Semi-Finalist in ongoing Flickers Rhode Island International Film Fest. 2024; a Finalist at 2024 Austin Revolution Film Festival for Best Screenplay and Elizabeth a Finalist for Female Writer of the year.
  • 2024: Short film FourSided is screening at 2024 Cannes World Art Festival and was selected for a special screening at Climax Film Festival in Madrid; screened at New Bedford Film Fest, 2024.
  • 2023: Short film FOUR-SIDED chosen as Best Narrative Short at MAGMA film festival in Madrid and was an award winner at Sensai Fest in Tokyo; it was an Official Selection in several 2023 film festivals: Paris Awards Film Festival, Sydney World Film Festival, Magic of Cinema Festival in Barcelona, Lonely Wolf International Film Festival.
  • 2023: Elizabeth script, LOCK HER UP, won the Los Angeles Script and Film Festival award for Best Suspense/Thriller script and it was a finalist in the Breaking Walls Thriller Script contest and Page Turner Film Festival.  Her feature script A FOUR-SIDED BED was a selection in Lonely Wolf Film Festival and in Paris Awards Film Festival.
  • 2022: Seattle International Film Festival; Elizabeth's first feature film I'LL SHOW YOU MINE won 3rd Runner Up for BEST FILM of the Festival, out of over 100; it was named a Pick of the Festival in publications including The Sunbreak and The Stranger; it was also named a Pick of the Fest by INTO magazine at Frameline Festival in San Francisco
  • 2022 Elizabeth's screenplay LOCK HER UP was a Top Ten Finalist in Stage 32's national Female-Driven Sreenplay competition.
  • 2021: BROADWAY WORLD REGIONAL THEATER AWARDS: the TheatreZone 2020 production of Tonya & Nancy won 4 Broadway World Regional awards for FL: Best Production of a Musical for the Decade, Best Director, Best Vocal Performance, Best Setting Design.
  • 2020 Screenplay award recognition: Elizabeth's script, A Four-Sided Bed, was a QuarterFinalist in the Academy Nicholl Fellowships, 2020 (run by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the Oscars), was a Finalist in LA UNDER THE STARS Film Festival, 2020, and in Stage32 Festure Film Screenplay competition, 2020.  A scene from her script is the basis of the short film SISTER KIN which will screen at LGBT TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL.
  • 2019 Screenplay Award Wins: Elizabeth's script, A Four-Sided Bed, won multiple awards in 2019, including prizes from Massachusetts Independent Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Awards, Hollywood Boulevard Film Awards, International Independent Film Awards, ReelHeART International Film Awards, Vegas Movie Awards and Festigious Film Awards.
  • 2019 SHORT FILM awards: FOUR-SIDED, a short film based on Elizabeth's novel, won three Independent Shorts Awards: Gold Awards for Best Romance and Best Experimental and Silver Award for Best LGBT.  It also won two awards at Vegas Movie Awards, including Best Experimental Film.  The Film has been an official selection at multiple Film Festivals.
  • 2019: Elizabeth's TONYA & NANCY: THE ROCK OPERA selected for a Photo Flash Feature in Broadway World, two feature pieces in BW as well as prominent coverage in PLAYBILL.
  • 2019: Elizabeth's play STOLEN GIRL SONG produced at Act One One Act play festival in New York

  • E ARCHIVES...
  • Notable Media from past years:
  • ​2018: Elizabeth became a member of ASCAP, for songwriting professionals
  • 2017: Elizabeth's novel WE GOT HIM was one of three finalists for the Midwest Book Award; 2017: The Chicago production of TONYA & NANCY: THE ROCK OPERA was nominated for two Jeff Theater Awards and won one; 2016/2017; 2017: Elizabeth had two events accepted at the AWP 2017 conference; ADAPTATION IN THREE ACTS and WRITTEN ON A (WOMAN'S) BODY.
  • 2016: TONYA & NANCY: THE ROCK OPERA named one of TOP FIVE MUSICALS OF 2016 by New City Stages in Chicago
  • 2015: TONYA & NANCY: THE ROCK OPERA selected as a Full Production show at the New York Musical Theater Festival.
    • 2015: TONYA & NANCY: THE ROCK OPERA had a sold-out run at NYMF in NYC: Ken Davenport's Producer's Perspective listed the show as one of TOP FIVE at NYMF and PLAYBILL sited it as one of the 'Top Ten Shows to See'.  Broadway World spotlighted it as a PhotoFlash feature; Best of Off Broadway listed it as a Best of Fest.  
    • 2010/2011: Short film Celebrities in Disgrace (based on Elizabeth's novella with script co-written by Elizabeth) premiered at the Woods Hole International Film Festival; the film screened at several festivals & drew coverage on WBUR Boston
    • 2010: winner of Boston's Literary Death Match, an international reading series run by Opium Magazine; 2011: Tonya & Nancy: the Rock Opera selected as an Arts Pick by WBUR, Boston; Coverage for the show has included AP, NYT, London Times, Sports Illustrated, Boston Globe, Good Morning America, ESPN Hollywood and more; 2008 Portland Area Music Awards; Oregon: Tonya & Nancy: the Rock Opera nominated for Best Original Musical and Best Original Song in audience-based awards; 2002; Paterson Fiction Prize; book Celebrities in Disgrace chosen as Finalist
    • 2001 Lawrence Foundation Prize for Fiction; winner; $1000 literary award given by Michigan Quarterly Review
    • 1998 American Library Association Prizes: book A Four-Sided Bed chosen as a finalist in its ALA Prize fiction catagory.
    • 1998: Boston Globe Paperback Bestseller List: novel listed in February, 1998; America Online; amazon.com; Library Journal (magazine): A Four Sided Bed novel cited as a ‘Best First Novel’ or named as a ‘Recommended Book’
    • PEN/New England: Elizabeth elected to Executive Board, 1998; Vice Chair, 2001
    • Best American Short Stories, 1986, 1991 and 1993; Pushcart Prize, ‘93/’94, 2001: stories cited among the “Distinguished Stories of the Year”
    • Iowa Short Fiction Prize, 1992. Story manuscript selected by James Salter for publication and award
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photo credits: Sharona Jacobs- main page and this page
Sarahana Shrestha (News & Events page)
Clay Anderson (photo with Michael Teoli); Media page
Robert Pushkar (54 Below photo; Tonya & Nancy page)
Bill Searle / Cholla Production (group photo, Tonya & Nancy page)