Elena Freck

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News

Summer 2026

I will be an artist-in-residence at Gibraltar Point Center for the Arts on the Toronto islands. Who knew Toronto had islands?

Spring 2026

I got into grad school!!! I will join Brooklyn College’s MFA Playwriting cohort in the fall.

I am a semifinalist for Annie Baker’s Cherry Lane Playwrights Collective.

Fall 2025

A published version of Protect the Protectors is now available to purchase from 1319 Press.

Protect the Protectors was produced by Brooklyn Art Haus at Kitchen Sink Theatre Company.

I was interviewed by kanishk pandey for Staff Picks.

Summer 2025

Protect the Protectors is a Semifinalist for the Princess Grace Awards Playwriting Fellowship at New Dramatists.

Spring 2025

Protect the Protectors has been named a finalist for The Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival.

Protect the Protectors has received an Annual Artist Grant from The Puffin Foundation, Ltd.

My new one-act Heaven is a Date With Your Ex and Her Ex will be presented as a staged reading at the Vino Theatre in Brooklyn on March 29, alongside the other DTC Chick Magnet cohort members’ new plays. (Tickets here).

Winter 2025

I joined the inaugural cohort of Dyke Theatre Co.‘s Chick Magnet: A New Play Incubator.

Protect the Protectors will be workshopped in Mouths of Babes Theatre’s Scotopia Festival in Wilmington, NC in March.

I started a new job with the development team at Roundabout Theatre Company. Yeah, I “work on Broadway” now or whatever.

Fall 2024

I spent a week in Averill Park, New York as an artist-in-residence at Arts Letters & Numbers.

A four scene excerpt from Protect the Protectors had a staged reading in Paper Kraine’s September show ‘Falling Up’ at Under St. Marks Theater.

Protect the Protectors had a full staged reading at The Tank directed by Clara Livingston. And it was awesome!

Spring 2024

WalkOver has been named a Semi-Finalist for the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center.

Winter 2023

I was promoted to Development Manager at St. Ann’s Warehouse.