Eliana Pipes

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Eliana Pipes
Eliana Pipes is a writer, filmmaker and performer. Her plays include Dream Hou$e (world premiere co-production with the Alliance Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre and Baltimore Center Stage), Bite Me (South Coast Repertory Pacific Playwright’s Festival, NNPN National New Play Showcase), Unfuckwithable (Drama League DirectorFest), Cowboy and the Moon (Dramatists Guild Foundation Fellowship, NNPN MFA Playwright's Workshop), Lorena: a Tabloid Epic (New York Theatre Workshop Dartmouth Residency, The Playwright's Realm Scratchpad Series), Stand and Wait (The Fire This Time Festival) and more.
Her writing awards include the Alliance Kendeda Prize, KCACTF Harold & Mimi Steinberg Award and Ken Ludwig Scholarship, Leah Ryan Fund Prize, National Latine Playwright Award, Dr. Floyd Gaffney National Playwriting Prize, and a three-time finalist status for the Eugene O'Neill National Playwriting Conference. She holds new play commissions from Two River Theater and South Coast Repertory.
As a filmmaker, she was awarded the Academy Gold Fellowship for Women through the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She was also awarded the inaugural WAVE Grant through Wavelength Productions to support the production of her animated narrative short film ¡Nails!, which premiered at Outfest LA LGBTQ+ Film Festival and earned her the earned her the Outfest x Colin Higgins Foundation Youth Filmmaker Grant. BA Columbia University, MFA Boston University.
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Bite Me
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Bite Me
Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 1m
When two teens – a privileged white boy and an overachieving Black girl – find themselves together in a storage closet, the heat soon boils over. Bite Me explores the drama (and trauma) of trying to fit in at high school, and the unfinished business that lingers over a decade later.
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DREAM HOU$E
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DREAM HOU$E
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 3w, 2any gender (adult)
Two Latinx sisters prepare to sell their home on a reality TV show, hoping to capitalize on neighborhood gentrification. But once the cameras are rolling, the family's turbulent past and uncertain future begin to collide, and the sisters are forced to reckon with the secrets held between the house's walls.
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Bite Me
Eliana Pipes
Full-Length Play, DramaBite Me
Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 1m
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DREAM HOU$E
Eliana Pipes
Full-Length Play, Dramatic ComedyDREAM HOU$E
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 3w, 2any gender (adult)