“America What? I Dream An America” (theatre)

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Ellen Hagan is a writer, actress and educator.  Her poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and can be seen in Failbetter, La Petite Zine, Monologues for Women by Women, Check the Rhyme and upcoming in Submerged: Tales from the Basin, PLUCK, Manifesta, and America! What’s My Name?   Her work has been featured on Kentucky Educational Television, New York’s WBAI and WNYE and produced by SpokenWorks for the New York International Fringe Festival, ROAR Theatre Festival and the American Living Room.  She has had residencies at the Hopscotch House and The University of Kentucky and received grants from the KY Foundation for Women and the GSA Toyota Alumni Fund.  Ellen recently performed for season five of Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam and tours the state with her duo show Becoming Woman.  As a film actor, Ellen can be seen in Blue King, a Brother Flores Film due out in Spring of 2008.  She is also the co-founder of girlstory, a multi-generational, multi-cultural women’s collective based in New York City.  girlstory was recently nominated as Vagina Warriors for V-Day at Adelphi University and performed for Eve Ensler’s Stop the Violence Campaign in the Y.Now Festival at HERE Theatre in summer 2006.  Ellen holds an MFA in fiction from The New School University, and recently finished her first full-length novel entitled BLUSH, which was a winner in the Carnegie Center New Writers Series.  She is also a teaching artist with the Community~Word Project and DreamYard, and teaches creative writing at Adelphi University.

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