Elan Garonzik

Elan Garonzik

ELAN DAVID GARONZIK is the author of Scenes and Revelations, produced at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, off-Broadway by The Production Company, on Broadway at Circle in the Square, and frequently in regional and academic theater. His play The Blue Mercedes was produced at Actors Theatre of Saint Paul.

Elan’s comedy Eternity has been featured in over 20 festivals and competitions. It often...
ELAN DAVID GARONZIK is the author of Scenes and Revelations, produced at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, off-Broadway by The Production Company, on Broadway at Circle in the Square, and frequently in regional and academic theater. His play The Blue Mercedes was produced at Actors Theatre of Saint Paul.

Elan’s comedy Eternity has been featured in over 20 festivals and competitions. It often garners Best Play and Audience Favorite awards, including at the Boulder Life Festival (Colorado), the Magnolia Arts Center (North Carolina), and the Napa Valley Playhouse (California). Beyond the US, Eternity was produced at Pint-sized Plays (Wales), the British Club (Bahrain), and the Philippines where the lead actress in Eternity won Best Actress in a 28-play festival.

Garonzik’s comedy Adulation won both Best Play and Audience Favorite at a festival at the Theater Project (New Jersey), and his drama The Coutances Altarpiece received a New Works of Merit Playwriting award.

Elan resides in the Fort Lauderdale, FL, area and is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Playwrights Center.

M.F.A. Carnegie Mellon University

Plays

  • SCENES AND REVELATIONS - full length (90 minutes) award winning drama
    "A deeply human play ... beautifully written." - Claudia Cassidy, WFMT Chicago
    "Glimmers with revelation." - The Chicago Sun Times ___ "A beauty." - WWD
    "A deep understanding of women and their relationships with men." - The New York Post
    "Written with deep affection, gentle humor and abiding compassion" Drama-Logue...
    "A deeply human play ... beautifully written." - Claudia Cassidy, WFMT Chicago
    "Glimmers with revelation." - The Chicago Sun Times ___ "A beauty." - WWD
    "A deep understanding of women and their relationships with men." - The New York Post
    "Written with deep affection, gentle humor and abiding compassion" Drama-Logue
    Set in 1894 at the height of America's westward movement, the play portrays four Pennsylvania sisters who decide to move in the opposite direction. As the play opens they are prepared to leave their farm and birthplace to move to England. Lyrical flashbacks dramatize their tender and frustrating romances.
  • ADELE HUGO - the true story of Victor Hugo's youngest daughter (in development 2023)
    Adele Hugo falls passionately in love with Albert Pinson, a handsome lieutenant in the British forces, and leaves her family to pursue him over nine years in Halifax and Barbados. Pinson once proposed, and Adele hopes their early romance will return. She pays his gambling debts, even obtains her full dowry in order to support his advancement from lieutenant to colonel. Adele kept volumes of personal...
    Adele Hugo falls passionately in love with Albert Pinson, a handsome lieutenant in the British forces, and leaves her family to pursue him over nine years in Halifax and Barbados. Pinson once proposed, and Adele hopes their early romance will return. She pays his gambling debts, even obtains her full dowry in order to support his advancement from lieutenant to colonel. Adele kept volumes of personal journals, and these have been the basis of several biographies and a movie by Francois Truffaut. Set in the 1860s in Guernsey, Halifax, Barbados and Paris, Adele Hugo is portrayed via a series of dramatic scenes, brief letters and Adele Hugo's own journal entries.
  • THE HARROWING - 10-minute drama in development (autumn 2020)
    ANNIE and HANK's son falls in love with skiing and moves to Colorado for university, where he dies in a ski accident. Overcome with sorrow, ANNIE struggles to discover when and where her incapacitating grief will ever end.

    Place: A small university town on the East Coast.

    Time: The present
  • ETERNITY - award winning 10-minute comedy
    Best Comedy - Audience Choice Award, Boulder Life Short Play Festival
    Winner - Nor'Eastern Playwriting Contest (Vermont Actors Repertory Theater)
    People's Choice Award - Napa Valley Playhouse
    On learning she’ll spend eternity with the appearance of an 81 year old woman, LILLY exasperates SAINT PETER by begging and pleading for a younger age. When he finally agrees, LILLY asks for...
    Best Comedy - Audience Choice Award, Boulder Life Short Play Festival
    Winner - Nor'Eastern Playwriting Contest (Vermont Actors Repertory Theater)
    People's Choice Award - Napa Valley Playhouse
    On learning she’ll spend eternity with the appearance of an 81 year old woman, LILLY exasperates SAINT PETER by begging and pleading for a younger age. When he finally agrees, LILLY asks for something surprisingly different.
  • ADULATION - award winning 10-minute comedy
    Best Play and Audience Favorite Awards - The Theatre Project, New Jersey
    Alone in his office at day's end, Impresario GEORGES ISSROFF plans dinner with a major donor, but he is interrupted by his lead but aging dancer, NATASHA, who knows her days on the stage are likely over, She pleads and implores GEORGES to accommodate her, but he refuses. She is about to leave, dejected, when a surprise...
    Best Play and Audience Favorite Awards - The Theatre Project, New Jersey
    Alone in his office at day's end, Impresario GEORGES ISSROFF plans dinner with a major donor, but he is interrupted by his lead but aging dancer, NATASHA, who knows her days on the stage are likely over, She pleads and implores GEORGES to accommodate her, but he refuses. She is about to leave, dejected, when a surprise comment makes GEORGES send NATASHA, not himself, to the dinner.
  • THE COUTANCES ALTARPIECE - award winning 10-minute drama
    Award - New Works of Merit Playwriting Contest
    In 1260 AD Normandy, wealthy merchant GEOFFREY BOUVIER, wants personal attribution for a large gift to the church. There is a clash of cultures -- the social, community spirit of the guilds versus the individual influence of a wealthy merchant. There is no resolution, until the BISHOP suggests an alternative.
  • THE BLUE MERCEDES - one act (30 minutes) gay drama
    During a stay at a resort, EVEREST views his sporty Mercedes being checked out by a handsome young man, MARK, a local mechanic. EVEREST stops by MARK’s garage, and on first failing to capture MARK’s interest, he ups the ante by playing his chief bargaining chip, the blue Mercedes itself.