Elaine Romero
I am a playwright, a theatre artist, a human who loves embodied words as I watch them play upon a stage under lights in three dimentions.
Category: Artist/Individual
Discipline: Theatre / Performance
About Elaine Romero
An award-winning U.S. playwright, Elaine Romero’s plays have been presented across the U.S. and abroad; she is also widely published and anthologized in over 50 publications. Her new play, Prosperita, was commissioned by and presented Off-Broadway with Red Bull Short Play Festival, starring Liza Colón-Zayas (“The Bear"). Like Heaven (Bridge Initiative) received an ariZoni Award for best script in 2023 for a production in the Phoenix Metro Area. Secret Things, which has to do with crypto-Judaism in New Mexico, received a critically-acclaimed production at 1st Stage where the play was name by DC Metro Theater Arts as one of the best Outstanding Professional Theatre Productions. Her banned play was featured in Banned Together for the Dramatists Guild Legal Defense Fund on the Broadway Podcast Network.
The month-long, RomeroFest, featured her work at theatres nationally and internationally in March 2021 with over seventeen separate projects. Initiated by the Arizona Theatre Company, some of the collaborating companies included Artists Repertory Theatre, Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre, InterAct Theatre Company, Seven Devils New Play Foundry, Winding Road Theatre Ensemble to name a few.
Elaine Romero
Preferred Pronouns: she/hers/ella
elainedromero@gmail.com
9176407027
https://www.elaineromero.com
Juan dying in Serafina's arms
El Tiradito
Serafina (Alba Jaramillo) holds her slain lover Juan Oliveras (Anthony Rascon) in Elaine Romero’s El Tiradito.
Shackle
Elaine Romero’s video monologue Shackle from The 24 Hour Plays: Viral Monologues supporting New Sanctuary Coalition. Performed by Jonathan Burke.
Elaine Romero's Like Heaven Poster from the Bridge Initiative (Phoenix)
Elaine Romero's Like Heaven
A poster from Elaine Romero's Like Heaven winner of the ariZONI Award for Best Original Script. It features Four women on a lawn (Natalie Andrews, Maren Mclean, Brenda Jean Foley, Shonda Royall).
