Elisa Wolfe, Writer
I’m an optioned screenwriter, advertising copywriter, proofreader/editor, and theatre lover-turned-playwright. I love all forms of writing except the ones that force me to write about myself, which is why it’s taken me so long to build this site.
Read on to find out about five of my plays/screenplays. If you are looking for information about Reader Ready, Proofreading and Editing Services for Screenwriters, please visit me at readerready.net.
Plays/Screenplays
A Dinner with Beverly Finkelstein
Stage Play
A feisty 80-year-old Jewish grandmother risks alienating her entire family if she can’t make peace at a so-called “Last Supper” and accept that her precious grandson is now her non-binary grandchild. There’s never been A Dinner with Beverly Finkelstein with so much on the line. At the end of the night, will the Finkelsteins be one big happy family or forever fractured?
SET: This play takes place in one NYC condo in real time. The living room/dining room remain on the stage for the entire play.
CAST: 6 F (3 early-20s, 2 50s, 1 80), 1 M (60s), 1 non-binary actor (early-20s)
2025 Tampa Bay Theatre Festival Selected Staged Reading
2024 Screencraft Stage Play Competition Quarterfinalist
The Women in Arthur’s Life
Screenplay
A woman is forced to live with her almost ex-husband and his mistress-turned-ex-fiancée to compensate for his financial mismanagement while trying to throw her daughter and her future bride the perfect wedding.
2021 Nicholl Fellowship Quarterfinalist
2021 Austin Film Festival Second Rounder
2022 Austin Film Festival Second Rounder
Underground Connections
One Act/Stage Play/Screenplay
A melting pot of passengers stuck together in a subway car learn about each other – and themselves – when they can’t keep their mouths shut and share all their stereotypical beliefs with each other.
SET: A subway car, the bedroom and desk in a studio apartment, a street, and a living room.
STAGE PLAY CAST: 8 M, 5 F
ONE ACT CAST: 5 M, 4 F
The Human Condition
Screenplay
After a woman’s cheating indirectly leads to her husband’s death, she gets a chance to relive and repair her past, if she can make herself fall in love with her husband and out of love with the other man.
2015 Nicholl Fellowship Quarterfinalist
The Runaway Vow Renewal Bride
Screenplay
Twenty-five years after her shotgun wedding, a woman realizes she doesn’t have to say “I do” at the vow renewal ceremony her husband planned, but she doesn’t foresee the way her rash decision will affect all the important relationships in her life.
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