Résumé
PRODUCTION DIRECTION AND DESIGN
The Secret Garden (Director) – Street Theatre Company – coming summer of 2012
The Little Prince (Director) – Street Theatre Company – 2011
Free to Be … You and Me! (Producer) – Street Theatre Company – 2011
The Gift of the Magi & Other Tales from O. Henry (Director) – Street Theatre Company – 2010
As You Like It (Director) – Street Theatre Company – 2009
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Musical Director) – Street Theatre Company – 2009
12 Angry Men (Assistant Director) – Lamplighter’s Theatre – 2009
I Never Saw Another Butterfly (Director) – Pull-Tight Youth Actor’s Guild – 2008
It’s a Wonderful Life (Director) – Pull-Tight Youth Actor’s Guild – 2007
Stalag 17 (Costume Designer) – Pull-Tight Theatre – 2007
Guys and Dolls (Musical Director) – Pull-Tight Youth Actor’s Guild – 2007
THEATRE EXPERIENCE
Sense and Sensibility (Miss Lucy Steele) – Lamplighter’s Theatre – 2012
Ragtime in Concert (Featured Ensemble) – Street Theatre Company – 2011
Cloyd’s Ghost (Alice) – Street Theatre Company – 2011
A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream (Hermia) – Lamplighter’s Theatre – 2011
Music Man (Ethel Toffelmeyer) – Lamplighter’s Theatre – 2008
Much Ado About Nothing (Hero) – Lamplighter’s Theatre – 2008
Smokey Joe’s Café (Ruby) – Pull-Tight Theatre – 2006
A Mid-Summer Nights Dream (Faerie) – Act One Theatre – 2006
Merry ”Bleeping” Christmas (Various Characters) – Ground Works Theatre – 2005
Left to Right (Dee) – B5 Black Box Theatre – 2005
The Anastasia Trials in the Court of Women (Athena) – The Belmont Little Theatre – 2004
A Pastor’s Revelation (Faith) – The Belmont Little Theatre – 2004
Little Women (Aunt March) – The Belmont Little Theatre – 2004
Other Theatre, Musical and Opera work includes roles in: Evita, Hansel and Gretel, West Side Story, The Mikado, Children of Eden, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat
NOTABLE PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS
Whole Heart Family Ministries Homeschool New Covenant Tutorial, Tutor of Theatre Arts www.wholeheartfm.com/nct
Portara Ensemble: Gateway to Music and Arts, Soprano www.portaraensemble.com
No More Secrets, Jenny (A sexual abuse prevention play brought to the Nashville Metro School System) Street Theatre Company
Music City Swing Band, Alto – Jazz Vocalist www.musiccityswing.com
SummerFest 2007, Jazz Vocalist Wilson Bank & Trust
XXXmas (short film-retelling of the Christ Story), Mary Haven Productions
Wanted (short film), American Idol Contestant Haven Productions
Company (Traveling Vocal Show Ensemble), Singer/Dancer Belmont University
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Bachelor of Music – Belmont University ~2005
Major in Commercial Voice, Emphasis in Performance & Music Business
Acting:Scene Study: Laura Skaug, Lynn Eastes Stage Presence: Kent Parham
Voice:Stage: Kathy Chiavola Commercial: Janet Kenyon, Kathy Chiavola Classical: Dr. Ted Wylie, Brenda Bailey, Christine Poythress
Dance:Jazz: Debbie Belue Ballet: Tate Studios LindyHop/Swing/Balboa: Scott Hutcheson (private) Salsa: Ibeza Studios Ballroom: Scott Hutcheson (private)
Elaina currently teaches private Voice and Acting with www.NashvilleSings.com, is a tutor for Theatre Arts at the Whole Heart Family Ministries and is the Youth Programming Coordinator for Street Theatre Company.
