NEWS: Elliot has been awarded A Lifetime Creative Achievement Award at the Biografica Film Festival in Bologna Italy June 09.
The Woodstock Daddy
THEATRE – FILM – BOOKS – TV – ENTERTAINMENT – PERFORMING ARTS – EVENTS – MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER WRITER – AUTHOR – PRODUCER – HUMORIST -LECTURER – PLAYWRIGHT – SCENARIST
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
New School University, New York (10 years)- lecturer/instructor
creative writing for books, theater, film, television, improv, performing arts, entertainment
Hunter College, City University, New York (3 years)- faculty
fine & applied art and design, art history, theater & fashion design
New York Institute of Technology, New York. (4 years)- faculty adj. asst. professor
fine & applied art/design, art history
American Library/ Benelux – Brussels: (1 year)
creative writing
Brussels, Belgium: private creative writing seminars (4 years)
An American icon: co-produced 1969 Woodstock music festival 1969 (aka Woodstock Daddy)
FILM:
Academy Award semi-finalist ‘Best Foreign Film’ Rue Haute (French) screenplay
Grenoble & Paris Short Film Festivals ‘grand prix’ Maree Basse screenplay
Ticket To Freedom: Woodstock (docu-comedy) screenplay and starring as himself
Sketch-up screenplay and star role – rtb-tv Belgium
The Music Keeper, drama – teleplay: Polish satellite television/ Warsaw
On Wings Of Fire – stars zubin Mehta for air India/Cyrus Productions, w/Derek Jacobi
45 English language dub (Multi-National European Film Horse Operas) scenarist / voice over artist
THEATRE:
Dramaturg National Theater/ Belgium
Dramaturg Trm Royal Opera de la Monnaie, Belgium; ‘last sweet day’s of isaac’ Cryer/Ford musical comedy
La Gardienne de la Musique – comedy: National Theater, Theatre Moderne/Paris; Copenhagen, Montipulciano/Roma – Italy (starred: Aldo Foa); Solna & Stockholm- Sweden; Kielhl Opera House/Germany; Jacques brel blues (musical-drama) – musik theater/ Ballet van laanderen- Antwerp, Amsterdam, rotterdam, hague, theater row theater/nyc;
Improv show – 5 year run for national theater – writer
TELEVISION:
Montreux Television International Awards: 2nd. Place – (2 years)
Sketch-up (comedie musicale specials) teleplays & star roles – rtb-tv Belgium
Billboard’s road to grammy’s (2x) tv scripts – starring paul Williams
Great American Disaster (French cable series – writer/ starring roles
BOOKS:
Best Seller – paris Rue Haute author, editions rossel/Brussels
High Street an Avon paperback book / Hearst Publications
Jacques brel blues – Ballet van Vlaanders, Antwerp (playwright, co-producer)
Knock On Woodstock – Best Selling Novel – amazon.com
Taking Woodstock – Square One Publishers , n.y. publication January 2007
EDUCATION:
Hunter College, City University, New York: BFA degree
Pratt Instiitute, Brooklyn, New York: MFA program
Sorbonne, Paris, France French cultural studies