ELLEN GRAHAM

I have been a theater artist based in Seattle for twenty years. Most of my work has been directing original scripts, and I was a proud member of The Sundance Play Lab and WordBRIDGE Play Lab.

I recently returned to my first love, writing. My work focuses on the West and stories of open spaces, both on the land and in the heart. I am at work on a series of stories about growing up in Salt Lake.

Publications:

“Baby on a Highway”, Narrative, July 2020

“Polygamist Cabin”, High Desert Journal, Issue 28, (Spring 2019)

“How to Clear a Room”, Everyday Fiction, (July 2017)

Contests:

Third Place, Glimmer Train Short Story Award, “Livingston”

Honorable Mention, Glimmer Train Short Story Award, “Car Hike”

EDUCATION:

B.A., Tufts University

M.F.A., University of Utah

PROFESSIONAL DIRECTING EXPERIENCE:

Five By Tenn                                       Tennessee Williams                             Stone Soup Theater

Daughters of Catastrophe                  SP Miskowski                                       Theater Off Jackson

Wait!*                                                    Julie Jensen                                          A.C.T., Seattle

Dr.! Dr.!                                                 Eckstrom/deBoy                                 Egyptian Theatre Company

Women Who Steal                              Carter Lewis                                         W.H.A.T., Wellfleet, Mass

Last Lists of My Mad Mother           Julie Jensen                                          Northwest Actors Studio

Merry Wives of Windsor                   Shakespeare                                         Greenbriar Valley Theater

Complete Works of

Shakespeare (abridged)                      company                                               GVT

The Holiday Show*                            SP Miskowski                                       The Mae West Fest

‘Twas the Night Before

Christmas*                                           V. Holloway                                         American Stage

Summer and Smoke                           Tennessee Williams                             Northwest Actors Studio

The Chairs                                            Ionesco                                                  Egyptian Theatre Company

Last Lists of My Mad Mother           Julie Jensen                                          Northwest Actors Studio

The Kathy and Mo Show                   Gaffney/Najimy                                  Salt Lake Acting Company

Talley’s Folly                                       Lanford Wilson                                    Egyptian Theatre Company

The House of Blue Leaves                John Guare                                           Theatre Works West

Zero G*                                                 Peter Buchman                                    Annex Theatre

Watusi*                                                 SP Miskowski                                       Geva Theatre, New York

Oil City Symphony                            various                                                   Egyptian Theatre Company

A…My Name Is Alice                        various                                                   Theatre Works West

Soft Click of A Switch                        Carter Lewis                                         Northwest Actors Studio

A Life in The Theater                         David Mamet                                       Northwest Actors Studio