Elana Greenfield

Elana Greenfield  (born New York City) is an American playwright, and short story writer.

Life
Greenfield was raised in Israel. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College, and from Brown University with an MFA. She was Artistic Director of New Dramatists. Currently, she teaches dramatic writing at The New School, in the Eugene Lang College division. She formerly taught the same subject at New York University.

Her work has appeared in Bomb and The Brooklyn Rail.

Awards

 * 2004 Whiting Award

Plays

 * Nine Come, Trinity Repertory Company, Providence, RI (1998).

Radio plays

 * "Possessed by a Demon: Two Tales of the Devil," was produced for public radio and also presented at the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater as part of the New Works project.