Elisabeth Frankel
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​March 3, 2020

Elisabeth began rehearsals as assistant director of Assassins at Classic Stage Company.
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March 2, 2020
The German Party received a public reading at Asolo Repertory Theater in Sarasota, Florida.
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December 15, 2019
CreateHER presented its
​end-of-semester performance.
Elisabeth's semester as Co-Director & Head of Playwriting with the CreateHER Education Program ended with a bang, presenting five incredible short plays written and directed by female-identifying high school students.
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​September 6, 2019

2076 was a finalist in the
​Columbia @ Roundabout ​2019 Reading Series.
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​​​​May 22, 2019
Elisabeth graduated from Columbia University
​with her MFA in Playwriting.
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​​​May 9-11, 2019
Elisabeth's MFA thesis project, The Visitors,
​received a staged reading at the Signature Theater.
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​​October 2018
2076 was a finalist for the
​Playwrights Realm’s ​2018-2019 Fellowship.
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​August 2018
Elisabeth was accepted into the 2018-2019
​Manhattan Theatre Club ​Directing Fellowship.
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​​Summer 2018
Episodes of the podcast, Feminist Popcorn, became available every two weeks. Elisabeth co-hosted with Samantha Rehr, celebrating and analyzing films about women.
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​​February – May 2018
Elisabeth assisted Lynn Nottage on the world premiere of her play Mlima’s Tale at the Public Theater.
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​February 2-3, 2018
​Elisabeth wrote and directed 2076 as my second-year MFA Playwriting project at Columbia’s School of the Arts.​
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​​August 18 – ​
​September 2, 2017

Neuroclear (formerly, Much Better) received a developmental production with the Really-Really Theatre Group ​in Seattle.
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​July 2017
Elisabeth worked on the Dramatic Writing faculty at the Broadway for All ​Summer Conservatory.
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June 1, 2017
The German Party was a finalist in the Columbia @ Roundabout 2017 Reading Series.
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April 29, 2017
Elisabeth's one-act, Shelter, was awarded the 2017 Bill Broyles Award for Drama, presented by the American Marine Corps Heritage Foundation.
Elisabeth received this award in Virginia at the National Museum of the Marine Corps, where there is now an engraved brick with her name and the name of her play ​outside the museum.
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​April 25, 2017
A Snow Leopard in Central Park received a staged reading at Columbia University.
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​October 29, 2016
​& ​May 23, 2016

There were two public staged readings of The German Party this year, starring a majority of the same cast at both performances. One reading was at Columbia University; and one was at Pearl Studios.
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​September 2016
Elisabeth began studying for her ​MFA in Playwriting at Columbia University.
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​April 21-22, 2016
Elisabeth co-directed a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, starring the students of East Harlem Tutorial Program’s Middle School Drama Class.
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​April 1-10, 2016
Elisabeth's play Jerusalem is Beautiful was produced by Porch Light Productions in ​Glen Rock, New Jersey.
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