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...
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.