ELIZABETH V. NEWMAN
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Film & Theatre Credits

Film

Director & Writer

Feature Films

Child of Light Austin, TX  Oliver Studios

Short Films

Hatched: A Tale of Great Egg-spectations 
Premiered at New Filmmakers New York,
WIFT-Toronto Short film Showcase, Los Angeles
The Rehearsal, New York
SEED II,  New York 
The Yellow Wallpaper
Finalist, Redstone Film Festival, New York
In the Mind’s Eye, Boston 
The Icing on the Cake, New York 
Numb, Boston
Attack, Boston
AM Following, New Haven 
Tokens, New Haven 
Seed, New York 
The Family Room, New York 
Fault Line, New Haven 
Awarded three separate Sudler Grants for the Creative Arts

Screenwriter

Galatea's Dream (short):
WINNER, 'Best Un-produced Screenplay' LA Femme Short Film Festival
​Nominee, Montreal Independent Film Festival 
Semi-Finalist, NYC International Screenplay Awards
QuarterFinalist,  Atlanta Film Festival 
QuarterFinalist, Screencraft Short Screenplay Competition 
QuarterFinalist, Blue Cat Screenwriting Contest
Official Selection, Amsterdam Short Film Festival
Shattering (feature):
Included in IPF's Emerging Narrative, IFP Independent Film Week, New York
In Cold Pursuit (short):
Second Rounder The Austin Film Festival

Producer

Brokers 
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Dir. Talya Klein, New York (Web Series) 
Blind
Dir. Charles Castel,  Award-Winning Graduate Thesis Film 
London, UK (short)
Break Fast at Tiffany 
Dir. Charles Castel, Boston (Short)
Poster Wars 
Dir. Ross Wachsman,  New Haven (Short)
Fault Line
Dir. Ross Wachsman & Elizabeth V. Newman, New Haven (Short)

Production Manager

Surkhaab 
Prod. Vivek Kumar & Barkha Madan, Dir. Sanjay Talreja, Winner: Best Feature Film, WorldFest Houston; Winner: Best Producer, Madrid International Film Festival, Toronto (Feature)
Palm Pilot
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Prod. OffHollywood Digital, Dir. Avram Ludwig, New York (Short)

First Assistant Director

Brokers (Web Series)
Dir. Talya Klein, New York 
Surkhaab (Feature)
​Prod. Vivek Kumar & Barkha Madan, Dir. Sanjay Talreja,  Winner: Best Feature Film, WorldFest Houston; Winner: Best Producer, Madrid International Film Festival, Toronto 
Palm Pilot  Prod. OffHollywood Digital,
Dir. Avram Ludwig, New York (Short)
Black Heart Anatomy
Dir. Levy Los Angeles (Short)
Blind
Columbia University Program, New York (Short)
The Addiction
Prod. Jordan Foley, New York (Short)
Blind
Award-Winning Graduate Thesis Film, London, UK (Short)
The Third Bank
Winner:  Best Senior Thesis in the Creative Arts at Yale, New Haven (Short)

On-Set Work Experience

Assistant to Tim Roth:  Funny Games
Dir. Michael Haneke, Warner Independent, New York

Assistant to Senior Show Producer: Wickedly Perfect, (CBS), LMNO Productions, Greenwich, CT

Second Assistant Director: Swim Test
Dir. Alex Chung, New York (Sundance official Selection)

Location Liaison: The Stepford Wives
Dir. Frank Oz, Paramount Pictures, Norwalk, CT

Production Assistant: The Guys
Dir. Jim Simpson Open City Films, New York

Production Assistant: Law and Order: Criminal Intent
Wolf Films, New York
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Production Assistant: La Leggenda di Al John & Jack
Cinergy Pictures, NY, Medusa Film, Italy
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Worked on 25 other short films in various crew positions:

Cinematographer, Script Supervisor, Sound, Editor, Gaffer, Art

Film Production Office Experience

NEW YORK:
Belladonna Productions:  Development Consultant
Focus Features (Rogue): Reader/script analyst
Andrew Lauren Productions: Development Intern/Reader
Open City Films (HD Net): Development/Production Intern
Big Mouth Productions: An Independent Social Issue Documentary Company, Office Intern

LOS ANGELES:
United Artists:
Production and Acquisitions Office
(Intern for Sara Rose, Sr. VP Production & Acquisitions

Stage One Reading Series: Producer/Coordinator (bi-monthly staged reading workshop series introducing new works from up-and-coming screenwriters and playwrights)

Education

Yale University (BA, Theater Studies; History of Art double major)
Boston University (MFA, Film Production)

Theatre

Director

The Lady From The Sea by Henrik Ibsen
The Filigree Theatre Austin, TX

LIFTED (World Premiere) by Charlie Thurston
The Filigree Theatre 

The Turn of the Screw by Jeffrey Hatcher
The Filigree Theatre  Austin, TX

Fefu And Her Friends by Maria Irene Fornes
The Filigree Theatre Austin, TX

100 Planes (West Coast Premiere) by Lila Rose Kaplan
The Filigree Theatre Los Angeles
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100 Planes (World Premiere) by Lila Rose Kaplan
The Filigree Theatre Austin, TX

Miss Julie ​by August Strindberg
The Filigree Theatre Austin, TX

TRIO (World Premiere)  by Sheila Cowley
The Filigree Theatre Austin, TX

A Delicate Ship (Austin Premiere)  by Anna Ziegler
The Filigree Theatre Austin, TX

Betrayal by Harold Pinter
The Filigree Theatre Austin, TX
 
Any Night (Los Angeles Premiere)  by Daniel Arnold
& Medina Hahn

EVN Productions/The Filigree Theatre Los Angeles

Body of Work (World Premiere)  by Christine Hoang
ScriptWorks Short Fringe FronteraFest 2017 
Awarded Best of Fest Week 
Hyde Park Theatre, Austin

The Amenable Stage (World Premiere)  by C. M. Gill ScriptWorks 
Short Fringe FronteraFest 2017, 
Hyde Park Theatre, Austin

Any Night (Austin Premiere) by Daniel Arnold
& Medina Hahn

EVN Productions, Austin

Third Annual Austin 1 Minute Play Festival,
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(Eight World Premieres) 
ScriptWorks,  Austin Playhouse, Austin

Any Night (Festival run) by Daniel Arnold
& Medina Hahn

EVN Productions, Frontera Fest, Austin

The Sniper’s Nest (Austin Premiere)  by Lisa Soland,
Last Act Theatre, Austin

Mocha (World Premiere)  by Eleanor Burgess
EVN Productions & Last Act Theatre, Austin

Goodnight Children Everywhere by Richard Nelson
The Palace Theatre, Ontario, Canada

The Park Bench (World Premiere) by Linda Lee Armstrong
The Arts Project, Ontario, Canada

Fragments  by Murray Schisgal
The Underground Theater’s Director’s Program,
The Underground Theatre, Los Angeles

Producer

 When We Were Young And Unafraid by Sarah Treem
(Austin Premiere)
The Filigree Theatre

Nights of Noir! (World Premiere) by Kasey Wilson
EVN Productions in assoc. with The Attic Theatre, Los Angeles

Orange Lemon Egg Canary (West Coast Premiere) by Rinne Groff
EVN Productions, Los Angeles

Clocks and Whistles (American Premiere) by Samuel Adamson
EVN Productions, in assoc. with Origin Theatre Company
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awarded Chashama Artistic Grant, New York

Dutchman by Leroi Jones
13th Street Rep. Theatre, New York

Speed the Plow by David Mamet
Yale University,New Haven
Awarded Sudler Grant for the Performing Arts

Assistant Director

Thom Pain by Will Eno
Dir. Ken Webster The Hyde Park Theatre, Austin

Weightless by Danielle Wolff
Dir. Jerry Kernion, The Attic Theatre,  Los Angeles

Other Affiliations

Women in Film & Television - AUSTIN founding co - President
(current)
Austin Film Festival Conference Panelist 2018 & 2019
SAG-AFTRA, Union Member (current)
Austin Film Society, Member, Austin (current)
DIRECTOR’S LAB: NORTH, Lab Member 2018
Yale in Hollywood Entertainment Group, Board Member 
Independent Film Project, Emerging Narrative Filmmaker, NY
B. Iden Payne Awards Nominating Committee, Member, Austin
Film Independent, Member 
Women in Film, Member (Los Angeles)
Women in Film & Television - Toronto, Canada 

Teaching & Related Experience

Boston University Acting for Writers and Directors (Graduate Teaching Assistant); Screenwriting: Writing the Adaptation (Graduate Teaching Assistant); Advanced Screenwriting II (Graduate Teaching Assistant)
Manhattanville College Reading Images: Visual Analysis of Images in Children’s Literature (Guest Lecture)
The Young Storytellers Foundation Head Mentor,  Los Angeles 
Yale University: University Pictures (UPIX),  President, Organized University Pictures Film Festivals; Coordinated the University Pictures New Filmmakers Workshops: Writing, Directing the Short Film
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