ELAINE AVILA

 

 

Elaine Avila’s plays have been performed in Los Angeles, Victoria, Edmonton, Vancouver, Michigan, and Scotland. Some of her favorite projects include Lieutenant Nun (based on the true story of a woman conquistador), Burn Gloom (a music-theatre collaboration involving writers from 14 cities, including Malawi, Santiago, Tasmania, Bali, New York City, Montreal, and Belle Ile, France) and Good Fooling (the story of Shakespeare’s Clown). She is the recipient of numerous awards including The Victoria Critic’s Circle for Best New Play, a Canada Council Millennium Award, Semi-Finalist—Princess Grace Award, “New Works for Young Women” Award/Residency from the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma, the A.S.K. Theatre Projects Scholarship, and the Alden B. Dow Fellowship. She has an MFA in playwriting from California Institute of the Arts, where she worked closely with Suzan-Lori Parks, Erik Ehn, Brian Freeman, and Alice Tuan. Teaching credits include: Arts Club Theatre’s LEAP Program, Calarts, UBC, Cabrillo College, Malaspina University College, San Francisco State University, Tooba
School of Physical Theatre, University of Tasmania, and as a Guest Playwright at the University of Alberta.