bio

Elise is an actor, writer, and director for theater, film, and tv living in Brooklyn, New York.

She’s worked as an actor on and off-Broadway since graduating from NYU Tisch’s Maurice Kanbar Institue of Film & TV, with a concentration in writing and directing. She’s an O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Finalist for her play Pretty Basic, was featured in Flint Reperatory’s New Works Festival, and a National Young Playwrights winner for her play Tangled. Her screenwriting and filmmaking debut, Do It To Me If You Want (co-dir James Udom), made its world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival, in the Tribeca NOW Indie Episodic Program and is currently enjoying its festival run.

Her single
knock can be found on Spotify and was featured in Will Arbery’s Evanston Salt Costs Climbing, dir. Danya Taymor at the New Group.

She’s currently shooting season 2 of Netflix’s The Night Agent.