Biography
Playwright and Director
Brighton, England Telephone 01273 - 572 409 email: elizawyatt@hotmail.com www.elizawyatt.com
Early Years and Training
Eliza was born and raised in Brighton, Sussex, and went to Boston Univeristy, Boston to achieve an honors degree in Philosophy. She then had some success with writing for a theatre company in Boston and took her M.F.A. (Playwrighting) at Brandeis University, U.S.A.
Awards and Play Production
Eliza went on to achieve prestigious American awards for her writing, Massachusetts Playwrighting Fellowship, Playwrights-As-Thinkers, Mid-West Playwrights Conference, Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference and was a finalist in the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. In 2002, she won the Moondance Film Festival Radio Play Columbine award. She won **** from the from The List at Edinburgh Fringe Theatre Festival and ***** twice from edfringe.com. January 2006 she picked up BEST PLAYWRIGHT from FringeReport.com.
Art in the Community
Eliza has always maintained a high profile in Community Arts. In Boston she worked with Roxbury Outreach Shakespeare Experience, bringing Shakespeare to schools. She has facilitated and led a number of playwrighting workshops, and co-founded Playwrights' Platform an ongoing group in Boston. Back in England she has been working at the Sojourner Truth Centre, Peckham Rye, with School Placement Programs. She has been a Green Party Candidate and is politically active.
Full-Length Play Productions
HAVING A LIFE, Alley Theatre, Cambridge MIRROR IMAGES, Alley Theatre Cambridge, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey (in translation) THE HOUSEKEEPER, Double Image Theatre, New York Cit AND Burbage Repertory Company, L.A. Calif. HAPPILY PUBLISHED, Boston Center for the Arts CHRONIC COMPETITION, Boston Center for the Arts BLUE SKY THINKING, Roxbury Outreach Shakespeare Experience AND Burbage Repertory, L.A. Calif., NUNCLE, Nightingale Theatre, Brighton Festival TECHNO FRANTIC LOVE, Edinburge Fringe 2000 GODS AND GODDESSES, West End Theater, Gloucester, Mass. FLOWERS OF RED, Edinburgh Fringe, 2005 FLOWERS OF RED, Boston Playwrights Theatre, 2006 SLEEP AROUND BEAUTY with songs she wrote with Paul Chi played at the Brighton Festival 2006 and at Peter Townshend's Eel Pie Studios at the Lawrence Ball Music Festival Her latest play is a book for the musical ALICE'S WORLD freely adapted from the Lewis Carrroll classic. Act One was produced at the Marlborough Theatre, Brighton December 2009 and the play/musical will be seen at the Brighton Festival 2010 Publications BLUE SKY THINKING, Literature International MIRROR IMAGES, Athena Press, L.A. Various articles in Literary Magazines Poetry in Coasters - an Anthology Poetry in Dark Horse, Boston