Theater Artist • Educator • New York, NY
The Teaching Artist Project
Fall 2022 - Spring 2023
Elana is proud to be a part of the Teaching Artist Project's 22-23 cohort.
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"Teaching Artist Project is a collective of diversely experienced arts educators training emerging and working teaching artists who are looking for a supportive community to engage in a self-reflective, justice-oriented learning practice in service of their teaching. The program entails a rigorous, 8-month
curriculum, rich in social justice-based pedagogy that also provides
supervised on-the-job experience."
"Therapy Sessions" with Melissa Modifer
Coming Soon
Elana is excited to be producing Melissa Modifer's original musical production "Therapy Sessions," which will be presented in the coming season at Fuse Theatre.
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Elana is passionate about the intersection of the arts and mental health and looks forward to sharing Melissa's story of love, loss, and rising "through the rubble."
The American Alliance for Theater and Education (AATE) Conference 2022
July 2022
Elana is thrilled to be representing Fuse Theater at the AATE Conference 2022 in Providence, Rhode Island. She will be leading a workshop on creating theater over distance, centered around Fuse's 2021 mail production "Special Delivery." She will also be working behind the scenes at Fuse's presentation of "What We Remember," a multicultural coming of age story that uses the traditional Thai art of shadow puppetry to explore the intersectional identities of the play's two main actors and creators.
" The Urgency of Now "
January 2022
Using fragments of essays by 5th and 6th graders, Elana created a found poetry-style script for "The Urgency of Now," a performance project developed through a partnership between Fuse Theater and Breakthrough Project for Social Justice in Lodi, California.
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Students were tasked with responding to MLK's speech on the importance of taking action and working towards social change. The final project was performed by community members and visiting teaching artists on MLK Day and streamed live from the California Islamic Center.