about

Ella Talerico is a lover of all things creative, collective, and alive. She’s a passionate playwright, director, songwriter, poet, filmmaker, producer, actor, and designer. Her work is poetic, saturated, bursting, and tender. She focuses on centering queer and female characters, mental illness, and the perennial battle between hope and despair within us and our community. She’s an alum of Ensworth High School and the National Theater Institute (Summer Theater-makers Playwriting, ‘22), and is currently in her senior year at Vassar College, studying Drama.

Her plays It’s Something for Sure!, Biophilia, Sandbags, Birds with Orange Bellies, Salt. Fruit., Wormball, and A Toaster, Some Breadcrumbs, and a Mediocre Answer have all had amateur productions in the past two years. Her solo performance piece Fruit. was performed at the New York Theater Festival in December of 2023. Her solo performance piece Salt. was performed as a part of Vassar’s Steerman Short Play Festival in 2022, and will also have a performance at Poughkeepsie’s Gallery 40 in July of 2024.