Elaine Brousseau is a playwright living in Providence, RI. Among her plays are:

The Wizard of Arden

Tough Love

One-on-One

Sales Pitch

Catharsis Interruptus

Assisted Living

At the Creation

New West

Divide and Conquer

Control Freak

The Lady Romeo

Elaine's work has been read or produced at theaters and festivals

throughout the United States, including at the Boston Theater Marathon XXI;

Culture*Park Short Plays Marathons (MA); Firehouse Center for the Arts New

Works Festivals (MA); Providence Fringe Festivals (RI); Re-Imagine Theatre (RI);

Lemon Live Microplay Festival (on Zoom); St. Luke’s Little Theater (RI);

WomensWork Theatre Collaborative (RI); Orange Players (CT); Raze the Space

Theatre (CA); BoxFest Detroit (MI); Contemporary Theater Company (RI), and

2021 Femme Fatale Play Festival (WV).

Elaine’s play Arthur, Reading was given a developmental reading by the Wilbury

Theatre Group in Providence in December 2022 and won the Peter Honegger

Prize for best one-act at the 2024 New Works Festival at the Firehouse Center

for the Arts in Newburyport, MA; Elaine is currently seeking production

opportunities for this play.

Her publications include scholarly articles on theater, along with the plays

The Joys of Camping in Contemporary One-Minute Plays and

The Intervention in Mini-Plays Review.

Elaine is a member of the Dramatists Guild and a founding member of the Blue

Cow Group (a group of Providence-based playwrights). She taught writing for

many years at Providence College. She is currently working on a play about a

ninth-grade class staging Samuel Beckett’s Endgame in their school.

You can contact Elaine through her website: https://elainebrousseau.com/