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"THE SEANCE MACHINE REVIEW" - by Holli Harms, Front Row Center
"WOMEN MAKING MUSICAL THEATRE: Institutions Hold The Power to Effect Change" - by EllaRose Chary - HowlRound
"IS THE PIPELINE A PIPE DREAM FOR EMERGING WOMEN MUSICAL THEATER WRITERS?" - by EllaRose Chary - The Lilly Awards
"STORY TELLER: Resonating With the Community" - Curve Magazine
BLACK AND GAY ON THE GREAT WHITE WAY: The Rise of the Gay Black Hero in Theatre - Playbill
"DRAMATISTS GUILD NAMES 2015-16 FELLOWS" - BroadwayWorld
"THE CIVILIANS WELCOMES 2015-16 RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT GROUP" - BroadwayWorld
ELLAROSE, CHRISTOPHER LING, AND SANDRA SOHDY INTERVIEWED ON BFM: THE BUSINESS RADIO
PENTAS EXCLUSIVE: A Chat with EllaRose Chary of MARRYING ME
Press About EllaRose's Work:
"DAISY EAGAN, EDDIE COOPER AND TORI SCOTT HEADED TO FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW" - Playbill
"SAME FIGHT" from PATRIETTES Named Finalist for F-Word Competition Judged by Connie Britton - Hollywood Reporter
2016 Dramatists Guild Fund Fellows to Present New Work at Playwrights Horizons - BroadwayWorld
Photo Flash: Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty and More Honor Dramatists Guild Fund's 2015-16 Fellows - BroadwayWorld
SOMEBODY MADE A PARODY VIDEO ABOUT COLONIZATION OF BUSHWICK, THE PIONEERS OF BUSHWICK - Bushwick Daily
PROSPECT THEATER COMPANY TO OPEN IGNITE SERIES AT THE TIMES CENTER WITH BY THE NUMBERS - BroadwayWorld
MARRYING ME: DON'T WAIT FOR LOVE - The Star Online
REVIEW: MARRYING ME - "Tying the Knot...Not!" - PenTAS
CROSIER'S LIFE TAKES STAGE - The Corydon Democrat
Press
ELLAROSE CHARY (she/hers) is an award-winning writer and advocate for inclusion in musical theater. She is a Dramatists Guild Fellow, NYFA Fellowship Playwriting/Screenwriting Finalist, Kleban Prize Finalist, Kernodle New Play Award Finalist, and winner of a BOH Cameronian Arts Award and the Weston Award for Musical Theater.
Her musical TL;DR: THELMA LOUISE; DYKE REMIX has been developed at The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center (NMTC Incubator Residency, NMTC Finalist), Rhinebeck Writers Retreat (Triple R Residency), and the UArts Polyphone Festival. Her play THE WRONG QUESTION was selected for the 2021 Jewish Playwriting Contest. She is the bookwriter for the award-winning THE DOLL MAKER’S GIFT, which opened at The Rose Theater in 2019 (“Families should flock to this one.” – Omaha World-Herald) and her play THE SÉANCE MACHINE premiered off-off Broadway at Obie Award Winning The Tank in 2019. Her other projects include: COTTON CANDY AND COCAINE, HOW TO SURVIVE THE END OF THE WORLD (featured on Broadway.com, BroadwayWorld, Hollywood Soapbox, and 89.5 FM Star), THE LAKE AND THE MILL, QUEER. PEOPLE. TIME., PATRIETTES (The #FWord Finalist) and the Malaysian musical MARRYING ME.
She has been in residence at Ars Nova (Uncharted), Harvard ArtLab, Catwalk Institute, and has received an Anna Sosenko Grant and a NAMT grant. Her work has been produced, developed and commissioned by the Great Plains Theater Conference, the Drama League, The Civilians and City Center (Encores! Off-Center), Theater C, AFO Solo Shorts, Prospect Theater, Joe’s Pub, and 54 Below. She was a guest lecturer and production studio lead artist at Harvard University in the Theater, Dance and Media department in Fall 2020.
She is an activist and advocate for inclusion in media both on and off stage. She has written for The Lilly Awards Blog, HowlRound, and Musical Theater Today (where she is a contributing editor). She has appeared on panels at NYMF and with Honest Accomplice Theater and co-curates Tankaret, a cabaret series for underrepresented voices. She believes the future of the American theater is universal healthcare. MFA: NYU, BA: Brown University.
"I strive to put characters in my work who are representative of the world I live in or who may be otherized for some reason, but to not have the fact that those characters are 'other' be their defining trait." - Curve Magazine
" 'If I were being cynical (which I can be), I might say that [this proliferation] may be due to what my friend and fellow musical writer, EllaRose Chary calls ‘the trickle down equality of white gay men,’' says bookwriter and composer-lyricist Michael R. Jackson." - Playbill
"Mind you, EllaRose (oh my god, so in love with her name!) is no calang-calang (translation: ordinary) lyricist." - PenTAS
"Marrying Me’s music spread – all melodic and catchy – balances well with the show’s witty lyrics." - The Star
"[Connie] Britton said it was difficult for her to choose her favorites, and she was moved to tears watching the videos and appreciating the unique effort that went into each one." - The Hollywood Reporter
"The video is pretty funny; of course, it's a laughter through tears." - Bushwick Daily
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