Elizabeth Page
Writer/Director/Producer. Plays include Spare Parts (produced by Olympia Dukakis at Whole Theatre and Off B'way at Circle in the Square Downtown where it was nominated for a John Gassner Award), The Nazi Plays (Denver Theatre Centre's US West Theatrefest) and Aryan Birth (Best Short American Plays.) She also wrote and directed Ladies! and toured it through women’s prisons and mental health facilities in New York State. And directed an environmental production of Julius Caesar for various sites in Riverside Park and the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens. Her work in theatre brought her into Television where she won six Emmy Awards and four Writers' Guild Awards and fell in love with the camera which took her to film school at the New School where she made lots of award-winning shorts, and then started making low budget commercials for B'way plays and web pieces for artists such as Melba Moore. She continues working in film and is currently raising financing for her feature film About That Night, about a sexual assault on a college campus. Ms. Page is also the Founder and Director of From Script to PreProduction, a lab for filmmakers supported by NYWIFT, Entertainment Partners and Light Iron. Ms. Page is currently developing a new full-length play, Blue Egg.
WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA
Website: http://ElizabethPage.org
FB: https://www.facebook.com/elizabeth.page.92560/ IG: @fromscripttopreproduction
MORE ABOUT ME
One of the most astonishing moments I’ve ever had in a theatre was at Whole Theatre in Montclair, New Jersey. We were in rehearsal for my play Spare Parts. It was the day after the Academy Awards where Olympia Dukakis - the lead producer at Whole Theatre - had won an Oscar. And there she was, 12 hours later, sitting in the back of the theatre in her sweats watching our tech rehearsal. Did she love winning the Oscar? Of course. But what remained most important to her was her theatre. Taught me a lot. I also love film. But today, more than ever, the importance of gathering human beings in a room to watch other human beings enact a play written by a human being cannot be measured. We must keep theatre alive and thriving if we’re to keep humanity alive and thriving.
WHAT I'M WORKING ON
Blue Egg - a drama in three acts. The story focuses on the romantic relationship between a Jewish man from NYC and an Austrian woman from Amsterdam that ruptures due to the historical baggage they carry, dragging their families into the ongoing conflict. The theme is reconciliation, the road back from fascism explored through the efforts of these two characters to find acceptance and forgiveness despite their beliefs and history. It has a small cast – David and Maria, David’s sister and her wife and their two children - and modest production requirements. It’s set in a small theatre in NYC and a small theatre in upstate New York and covers a fifteen-year period from 1989-2004. In other words, from the fall of the Berlin wall, through the Twin Towers bombing and on to the Second Intifada, with German folktales, culture and history, and the ongoing Israeli/Palestinian conflict as backdrop. As such, it speaks to the conflicts we’re in now with the grace of a little distance.
KEYWORDS
Drama, Fable/Folktales, Immersive/Site-Specific, Period, Political, Historical, Humor
