Eliana Theologides Rodriguez is a writer and dancer whose work centers young women in various stages of development grappling with feminism in the digital age, internalized dissonances between sexual performance and autonomy, and the general beauties and microtraumas of being socialized as a girl. Her plays include Marble Rooftop, Emma Has Church (2023 Reading with Workshop Theater, 2021 Princess Grace Semifinalist, 2020 John Golden Award for Excellence in Playwriting), Poor Queenie (2021 Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship Finalist, 2021 Goldberg Play Prize Finalist, 2020 Kennedy Center MFA & Undergraduate Playwrights Workshop), JuniPerfect (2021 commission with Adventure Theatre MTC), and Indian Princesses (2023 Writing Fellowship with Playwrights Realm). She is currently a writing fellow with The Playwrights Realm and is under commission at South Coast Repertory. When she is not writing, Eliana can be found working the box office at Rattlestick Theater, pole dancing, or watching Dance Moms.