Elan Garonzik

"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 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.