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Elaine Beardsley

Elaine Beardsley has written for the page and stage for ten years. Nonfiction work includes WORKING IN COMMERCIALS (or, How to Act and eat at the same time), published by Focal Press/Butterworth Heinemann. This book comes from her experience as a New York City Talent Agent with Abrams Artists and Associates. She has co-written the nonfiction KARMASCOPES with renowned psychic Joyce Keller, and edited Joyce Keller’s SEVEN STEPS TO HEAVEN, published by Simon and Schuster. Her research on the former Yugoslavia produced a novel, screenplay and a play which was produced in New York City. Her screenplay, THE CHAIR, is based on the true story of Anna Ella Carroll, the secret member of Lincoln's cabinet. Beardsley was a contributor to NEW YORK NIGHTLIFE MAGAZINE for two years.

Her stage works have been seen along the Eastern seaboard, in New York City and Baltimore. Her plays for children have run at the Maryland Renaissance Festival, Baltimore Museum of Art, and have toured widely throughout Maryland.

Beardsley is Co-Founder and Director of Baltimore’s 5fth Wall Theater Company (www.fifthwall.org), where she runs the very popular Young Filmmakers Workshops with Sundance Award-winning filmmaker, Steve Yeager. She has lectured and taught extensively, and has appeared on radio and television.

Beardsley is a recipient of the Maryland State Individual Artist Grant, a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, International Centre for Women Playwrights, and Playwrights Forum in Washington, DC. She graduated from New York University with a BA in Writing in 1994.

Beardsley is represented by Jack Scovil of Scovil Chichak Galen Literary Agency, 381 Park Avenue South, Suite 1020, New York, New York 10016, 212-679-8686