Elizabeth Diggs’s plays include Grant & Twain (Salt Lake Acting Company, Ps21), Nightingale (Vineyard, Capital Rep),  Close Ties, Goodbye Freddy, How to Plant a Rose, Dumping Ground, Priceless, and Custer’s Luck, published by Dramatists Play Service and Smith and Kraus.   She wrote the libretto for the musical Mirette, music and lyrics by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, available from MTI.  For TV: Tweety and Ralph, St. Elsewhere.    

PRODUCTIONS:  Recent productions include Mirette (Wichita Music Theatre, June 2021,  The Lewis Family Playhouse, Rancho Cucamonga, CA. 2018 and the Steven Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, England).  Grant & Twain was produced via Zoom by the Schoolhouse Theater in April 2021, and her monologue,  Bloody Divorce was part of Over and Above, (Brave New World Rep), to commemorate the 19th amendment.  Her plays have been produced at many regional theatres, the Goodspeed Opera House, Sundance Childrens’ Theatre, and many more.

HONORS, etc.
Guggenheim Grant in Playwriting
NEA development grant, CBS New American Plays - development grant
Susan Smith Blackburn prize - runner-up (Nightingale), and finalist (Close Ties, Goodbye Freddy),
Kennedy Center , CBS grant for new American Plays
Sundance Playwrights Lab,
Brown University, BA, Columbia University, MA, PhD Comparative literature
Liz studied ballet at SAB
Professor of Dramatic Writing, Tisch School to the Arts

CONTACT INFO:
efd1@nyu.edu

(518) 392-3421
website: elizabethdiggs.com

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