Elizabeth (ELLIS) Shannon

Elizabeth Shannon (ELLIS) is an actor, playwright, and director. She is a sophomore at Marymount Manhattan College, working to obtain her BFA Acting and BA Writing for the Stage degrees. She worked professionally with and was an apprentice at the Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET), and was a second year member of the Theatre Focus in the Academy for the Fine Arts. Her play, “Smoke”, was performed virtually with University of Texas El Paso’s student organization Ensemble. Her play, “What Are You Hiding?”, which she co-wrote with Morgan Southwell, was a winner of Baltimore Centerstage’s Young Playwright’s Festival, and a finalist in The Secret Theatre’s Act One: One Act Festival, as well as part of the live-streamed reading series, “The Future Was Now”, by Quarantined Theatre Company, which can be found on YouTube. Her play, “Nuclear”, was a winner of The Blank Theatre’s 28th Annual Young Playwrights Festival, received an honorable mention in the 43rd Annual Marilyn Bianchi Kids’ Playwriting Festival with Dobama Theatre, and was produced with The Trailblazers Collective. Her play “To Be Determined”, received a staged reading with Rapid Lemon Productions’ Variations on Vision and is the high school winner for the Northern Arizona Playwriting Showcase. Her play, “Loaded Language”, was a winner of #Enough: Plays to End Gun Violence, a project comprised of 7 plays by young women addressing gun violence. Its world premiere was with South Coast Repertory and is published in an anthology with Playscripts. Her play, “Even When the World Burns, I Am Still With You” was a quarter finalist in Screencraft’s Stage Play Competition in 2021, and a shortlister with Wild Imaginings Waco Epiphanies New Works Festival 2022.. Her play, "Mama Bushwick is Dead", was a winner of tThe Blank Theatre's 29th Annual Young Playwrights Festival, and is under development with Young Playwrights Theatre in Washington, DC. Her play, "here's to all the broken girls" was a winner of The Blank Theatre's 30th Annual Young Playwrights Festival. She has performed professionally and has had her plays produced nationally and internationally. Instagram: @_elizabethshannon