ELLEN GRAHAM
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