Ellen Chorley

ELLEN CHORLEY is an Edmonton-based playwright, producer, performer and arts educator. She is the current Festival Director of the Nextfest Arts Company which produces Nextfest: Edmonton’s annual emerging arts festival, the Academy Director of the Theatre Network Summer Academy, the Student’s Club Facilitator for the Citadel Theatre, a teacher for Foote Theatre School at the Citadel Theatre and a Sessional Instructor at MacEwan University. As a playwright, Ellen has had her plays produced all over Canada. Most recently, her play Everybody Loves Robbie was produced by Edmonton’s Northern Light Theatre and awarded the 2021 Alberta Literary Award / Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award for Drama as well as nominated for an Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award for Outstanding New Work.