Jane Elias

Jane Elias

Jane Elias is a writer, actor, and teaching artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her solo play DO THIS ONE THING FOR ME debuted in the 2013 EstroGenius Festival and later ran at both the Access Theater and TBG Theatre in Manhattan. In 2015 DTOTFM won the Producer’s Choice Award at the Secret Theatre’s Flying Solo Festival in Long Island City, and most recently was presented in the 2018 NY Fringe. BABY STEPS was a...
Jane Elias is a writer, actor, and teaching artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her solo play DO THIS ONE THING FOR ME debuted in the 2013 EstroGenius Festival and later ran at both the Access Theater and TBG Theatre in Manhattan. In 2015 DTOTFM won the Producer’s Choice Award at the Secret Theatre’s Flying Solo Festival in Long Island City, and most recently was presented in the 2018 NY Fringe. BABY STEPS was a finalist for the City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting and the Heideman Award, and GIRL IS MINE was a nominee for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. PLACEHOLDERS, a short film Jane wrote and co-directed, had its NYC premiere at Cinema Village as part of the 2019 New York Short Film Festival. In 2020 she created #SonnetCoronaProject, in which she wrote a sonnet a day for a different actor to perform until a COVID vaccine became available to the general public in the US. The project culminated in April 2021 and is comprised of 328 sonnets performed by 328 artists. As an actor, Jane most recently appeared in the world premiere of the late Mark Medoff's TIME AND CHANCE in Las Cruces, NM, and in HAMLET and AS YOU LIKE IT at the Theater at Woodshill in upstate NY. Jane received her BA in English from Duke University and her MFA in poetry from NYU. Acting training: Michael Howard Studios, Larry Singer Studios, The Barrow Group. Learn more at jane-elias.com.

Plays

  • GIRL IS MINE
    Amanda and her 11th-grade English teacher have been meeting after school. She's been helping him with his novel-in-progress, he's her number one confidant. Amanda's father, her boyfriend, and her guidance counselor grow increasingly suspect of the nature of the relationship, but is it really that big a deal?
  • Do This One Thing for Me
    In DO THIS ONE THING FOR ME, Jane Elias embarks on a journey of self-discovery through her poignant relationship with her father, Beni, a Greek Jew who survived Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Realizing she may not be able to grant his wish that he live to dance with his daughter at her wedding, she looks for another way to honor him and his legacy, traveling to Poland to take part in the March of the Living. An...
    In DO THIS ONE THING FOR ME, Jane Elias embarks on a journey of self-discovery through her poignant relationship with her father, Beni, a Greek Jew who survived Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Realizing she may not be able to grant his wish that he live to dance with his daughter at her wedding, she looks for another way to honor him and his legacy, traveling to Poland to take part in the March of the Living. An acutely observed portrait, filled with tenderness, longing, and a delicate humor, DO THIS ONE THING FOR ME is a transcendental pas-de-deux between two generations and a daughter’s love letter to her dad.
  • Baby Steps
    Tanya visits Max's home for a weekend life coaching session. Things come to a head when she shares more than her progress since their last meeting.