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  • News & Events
  • BOOKS
  • TONYA & NANCY
  • CONTACT & BIO
  • Media
  • FILM

News & events

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E. Onstage; photo by Sarahana Shrestha

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Events / NEWS

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Recent & upcoming
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JAN 2021: Broadway World Regional Theater Awards: the 2020 TheatreZone production of Elizabeth’s TONYA & NANCY: THE ROCK OPERA, starring Broadway’s Andrea McArdle, won four Broadway World Regional Theater Awards, for ‘best of the decade' in the FL region.  TONYA & NANCY won Best Production of the Decade of a Musical, Best Director, Best Set, Best Vocal Performance 
~FEB 27, 2021: Elizabeth will lead a virtual Workshop on Playwrighting called 'Act One' for the Charlotte Writers Club
~Elizabeth's essay COVID CLASS OF 2020 is published in NOW (Hobart Festival of Women Writers)
~Elizabeth was one of six writers who founded WritersAgainstRacialInjustice - a fundraiser for the Equal Justice Initiative that has raised over 60K & been featured in the Boston Globe, Publisher's Weekly
~IMAGINE, a magazine on New England film ran a feature article by Elizabeth
~Elizabeth's A Four-SIded Bed script was performed as a Best Scenes virtual reading at LGBT TORONTO.  It has been made into a Screenplay Short; the film- SISTER KIN-- screened at LGBT Toronto.
~FOUR-SIDED, a short film based on Elizabeth's novel, screened widely & will be available online in 2021; A FOUR-SIDED BED, Elizabeth's script drew recognition in the most recent Academy Nicholl Fellowships.  The script had a full staged reading at the  ReelHeART Film Festival

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THEATER & FILM


FILM NEWS/INFO
A FOUR-SIDED BED
~FEATURE FILM: Elizabeth's script is in development as a Feature Film with producer Amy Carpenter Scott/Creatrix Films (Pit Stop) and producer David Ball (Tag; 96 Minutes; Yellow); also attached as star & co-producer is Emmy nominated Rain Valdez, actress and activist (Lopez; Transparent). Elizabeth's script for A FOUR-SIDED BED has been recognized by over 20 Festivals and Contests.  
~A short film, FOUR-SIDED, based on Elizabeth's novel, premiered in Cannes at 'That Film Festival- Cannes' and screened at other festivals. See the FILM page & www.afoursidedbedfilm.com
THEATER NEWS/INFO
~TONYA & NANCY: THE ROCK OPERA most recently
played as a CONCERT EVENT in NYC & as a full production at THEATER ZONE in 2020, starring Andrea McArdle.  See rock opera website-
~IDOL TALK: A MAGICAL MEMORY TOUR OF TEEN IDOLS, a stage performance based on Elizabeth's and Tamra Wilson's book IDOL TALK was produced at Firehouse Center for the Arts with EXIT DANCE Company
~Elizabeth's One Act Play STOLEN GIRL SONG was performed 'off off Broadway at Secret Theater.
​~SKYPAINT- Elizabeth has written a Book for Russell Chudnofsky's
SKYPAINT:
A Cyber Rock Opera

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~Film/Theater MEDIA NEWS: Broadway World ; Photo Flash Feature; The New York Times: Tonya Harding: Tragic Muse?; URBANUPDATE-WHDH / NBC, Boston; WOMEN'S WATCH;  Frankie Boyer show
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w/ Suzanne Strempek Shea

Books

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  •  Elizabeth's novel--
    WE GOT HIM-- New Rivers Press-- is featured on Snowflakes in a Blizzard.  It IS OUT IN AUDIOBOOK from Blunder Woman Productions.  The novel was a finalist for the MIDWEST BOOK AWARDS.  It appeared on the Small Press Distribution Bestseller List; it was featured in
     SOLSTICE magazine and the Portland Press Herald and in a piece in THE BOSTON GLOBE & in THE BOSTON HERALD & on CAROLINELEAVITTVILLE.com
  • Watch the WE GOT HIM book trailer.
  • ANTHOLOGIES:
  • IDOL TALK, an anthology on Teen Idols co-edited by Elizabeth & Tamra Wilson was a Finalist in Eric Hoffer Prize and is being developed for stage-
  • SOAP OPERA CONFIDENTIAL: Writers and Soap Insiders Tell Why We'll Tune in Tomorrow as The World Turns Restlessly by the Guiding Light of Our LIves-- Elizabeth is co-editor with Suzanne Strempek Shea: See The Reminder & feature on the book in national mag. Soaps In Depth.                                    
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