User:375mon/Ellen Boscov

Ellen Boscov is a multidisciplinary artist (a composer, writer and performer). Her art song Green Tree was released as a music video directed and produced by Carla Dauden in July 2016. Long before Ellen studied music, she wrote the poem, Green Tree. A desire to set her poetry to music led her to learn about musical composition. Ellen also wrote the script for the Green Tree video.

Education and experience
Ellen received her BFA from University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Further studies include: poetry writing with Leslie Ullman and Li-Young-Lee; playwriting with Will Dunne and Richard Caliban; canon and fugue composition with Professor Richard Brodhead (Temple University Boyer College of Music and Dance); music theory with Jordan Klein and David Carpenter.

Ellen has worked as a teaching artist with California Poets in the Schools and Philadelphia Playwrights in the Schools.

Notable Works
Ellen’s full length drama THE ROSES ON THE ROCKS was produced by Manhattan Theatre Source in New York City.

NOBODY’S MAMA, the first draft of The Roses on the Rocks, was a semi-finalist in the Cherry Lane Mentor Project in New York City.

Her full-length comedy, DILLSBERRY U.S.A., was produced by the Marsh in San Francisco, CA. It received a Zellerbach Family Fund grant to support its production.

It also received a showcase at the Cable Car Theatre's Off the Track Series in San Francisco and a staged reading at the Castillo Theatre in New York City. Ellen's full-length play, WE’RE JUST ONE HAWAIIAN DANCER, was produced at the Theatre Shoppe in Chicago, IL. Ellen wrote her first play, BUNNY HIPS, with Mary Louise Parker.

Ellen Boscov’s original drama, Roses on the Rocks, was produced at Manhattan Theatre Source in January 2009. The Cast included Scott Sowers, Rachel Bay Jones, Laura Montes and Fulvia Vergel. Original music was produced by Rana Santacruz and Helena Espvall. Live music was performed by musicians Helena Espvall and Alberto Villalobos of the Villalobos Brothers.

Actress career
As a professional actor, Ellen has worked in numerous theatres including: Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival; Cable Car Theater, San Francisco; The Marsh, San Francisco. Ellen has also performed improvisational movement and storytelling with Olivia Corson and Third Stone Production.

Ellen’s short stories were published by "Phoebe: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Feminist Scholarship, Theory and Aesthetics;" Primal Voices;" and "American Writing: a magazine."