It all starts with the writing...

Filmmaker Elizabeth Page has been a writer, director and producer for many years.  Her plays include “Spare Parts” (produced by Olympia Dukakis at Whole Theatre and Off B’way at Circle in the Square Downtown where it was nominated for a John Gassner Award), “The Nazi Plays” (Denver Theatre Centre’s US West Theatrefest) and “Aryan Birth” (“Best Short American Plays”).  Ms. Page won six Emmy Awards and three Writers’ Guild Awards for her work on All My Children, One Life to Live and General Hospital.   She directed and produced her play, “Ladies!” for a tour of women’s prisons, and directed and produced an environmental production of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” for sites in Riverside Park and the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens.  She wrote, directed and produced the short films “red, white & blue” which won an award for Excellence in Narrative Filmmaking at the New School, and “The Pilgrim” which won awards for screenwriting and direction and screened on Reel13 on WNET.  She wrote, directed and produced two commercials for the touring production of the Broadway musical“Bklyn” with Melba Moore and Diana De Garmo, and a commercial for Melba Moore’s one woman show “Sweet Songs of the Soul.”  She directed and co-produced “Caught” – a 20 minute short film set in an adult league softball game on Staten Island – which won various awards including Best Short Film at the Connecticut Film Festival.  She wrote, directed and produced “Safe,” a short film about an accidental shooting which is on its festival run.   She directed and edited “Chance”, which she adapted from a play by W.S. Gilbert, about a pair of hapless sweethearts in the 1870s who reunite by chance on a rainy afternoon, which is in post.

Ms. Page is also the founder and director of From Script to PreProduction, a lab to help women filmmakers create packages for their narrative features.