Elena Belyea is a queer playwright, performer, producer, and arts educator from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Elena has worked with the following companies: Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Tarragon Theatre, One Yellow Rabbit, Downstage Theatre, Centaur Theatre, Major Matt Mason Collective, Nightwood Theatre, Swallow-A-Bicycle, Workshop West Playwrights' Theatre, Théâtre Prospero, and Nextfest.

Past credits and collaborations include: co-founding the Common Ground Arts Society’s Found Festival (a showcase of multidisciplinary arts events that take place in non-traditional venues), co-creating and performing in "The Worst Thing I Could Be (Is Happy)" (produced by Tiny Bear Jaws and presented as part of Buddies in Bad Times' 2018 Rhubarb Festival, Toronto, February 2018), playwright of "Cleave" (produced by Tiny Bear Jaws and presented as part of Fringe Theatre's curated Backstage Season, Edmonton, March 2018), writing and performing in "Miss Katelyn’s Grade Threes Prepare for the Inevitable" (produced by Tiny Bear Jaws and presented by Downstage Theatre in Calgary, Fringe Theatre in Edmonton, and the Sunset Theatre in Wells, summer of 2018; French translation premiered at Théâtre Prospero in May 2018). Elena was also a member of the 2016-2017 Write From the Hip Playwriting Unit (Nightwood Theatre, Toronto). Elena’s plays have received numerous awards, including First Place in the 2015 Wildside National Playwriting Competition with "Cleave" (which was also included as part of the Playwrights Guild of Canada’s 2018 Surefire List). Elena is the current recipient of the Tarragon Theatre's RBC Emerging Playwright Award and a 2018/2019 Playwright-in-Residence.

A graduate of the University of Alberta as well as the National Theatre School of Canada (Playwriting), Elena has mentored emerging writers and theatre makers for almost a decade through numerous arts organizations such as the University of Virginia’s Young Writers’ Workshop, The Citadel Theatre’s Foote Theatre School, the University of Alberta’s New Works Festival, to name a few.