Elizabeth Heffron

Elizabeth Heffron's plays include Mitzi's Abortion, which won the 2005 ACT Theatre New Play Award and was produced by ACT in July, 2006, and New Patagonia, produced by the Seattle Repertory Theatre and selected for the 'Alternative Reading Series' at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York. Her work has also been seen locally at Annex Theatre, 14/48 Festival, New City Theatre, and Freehold Theatre.

Her other plays and solo performance pieces include An Altered Life, The Main Room, Babies, Broads, and Bread, Moses Lake and Morphometrics, and have been staged in Seattle, Vancouver BC, San Francisco, St. Louis, and New York.  She teaches playwriting in the schools through ACT's Young Playwrights Program, and is the recipient of several grants from the Seattle Arts Commission, as well as a Playwriting Fellowship from Artist Trust and the Washington State Arts Commission.