BIO

Elisabeth Karlin’s plays include The Night the Ocean Met the Bay (Published by Next Stage Press; Jerry Kaufman Award, Citation for Excellence; Semi-Finalist, 2021 Bay Area Playwrights Festival.) The Showman and the Spirit (Winner of the 2017 Stanley Drama Award; Finalist, Ashland New Play Festival 2015; Semi-Finalist, the 2014 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference; Semi-Finalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival; Staged reading HRC Showcase Theatre.) Hotbed (Epic Play Readings, Project Y Theatre; Reading, Jersey City Theater Center.) Bodega Bay (Produced by the Abingdon Theatre Company; Winner of the 2013 Jerry Kaufman Award in Playwriting; THE BEST MEN’S STAGE MONOLOGUES 2014 and THE BEST WOMEN’S STAGE MONOLOGUES 2014, Smith and Kraus.) Wild Men of the Woods (The Lark Playwrights Week; Semi-Finalist, Premiere Stages Play Festival; Winner of the 2008 Jerry Kaufman Award.) A Mother’s Prayer (Mile Square Theater, Hoboken 7th Inning Stretch; Reading, Cooperstown, New York.) The Mooncalf (Produced by the Abingdon Theatre Company; BEST STAGE SCENES 2001, Smith and Kraus; Honorable Mention, Writers Digest Writing Competition.) Lucy’s Last Date (Produced at The Third Street Theatre, Los Angeles, named a Drama-Logue “Critic’s Choice”; Honorable Mention Dayton FutureFest.) She is an alumna of the Abingdon Theatre Playwrights and the Project Y Playwrights Group and is a member of The American Renaissance Theater Company and The Dramatists Guild.

As a film essayist, her work on Hitchcock has appeared in The Hitchcock Annual (Columbia University Press) and The Alfred Hitchcock Geek Blog, as well as lecture stages in the U.S. and Dublin. She sits on the advisory board of HitchCon, the International Hitchcock Conference.