Graduating class performances

ABOUT ELENA BELYEA

Elena Belyea is a playwright and performer in her last year of the Playwriting program at the National Theatre School of Canada. She graduated from the University of Alberta with a BA (First Class Honors) in Drama and a Minor in Creative Writing in 2011. She was born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, where she has been producing work for the past 8 years. She was Artistic Director of Edmonton's Common Ground Arts Society from 2012 to 2013, during which time she co-created the Edmonton Found Festival, a site-specific multidisciplinary arts festival. Past acting and writing credits include White Night (Found Festival, 2013), Home Video (Co-created with Ben Stevens, Found Festival, 2012), The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Promise Productions, 2011), Howl (an adaptation of the poem by Allen Ginsberg, ABBEDAM Productions, 2012), Brake (Co-created with Ben Stevens, Edmonton International Fringe Festival, 2011), I SEE YOU STRANGLING (New Works Festival, 2012), Rapture! (Co-wriitten with Collin Matty, Edmonton International Fringe Festival, 2010) and Paula and Strom (co-written with Will Arbery, Nextfest, 2010). She has also had poetry published in Edmonton's Other Voices and the University of North Carolina's Metabolism.