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Faculty

ELISABETH LEWIS CORLEY

Elisabeth Lewis Corley was founding artistic director of the Atlanta Shakespeare Company, now operating as The Shakespeare Tavern. A Highest-Honors-in-Poetry graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill now completing her MFA in poetry at Warren Wilson College, her poems have appeared in Southern Poetry Review, Hyperion, Carolina Quarterly, Feminist Studies, BigCityLit and other publications. In New York she worked for Signature Theatre Company in its first four seasons as an actor and producer and produced plays by award-winning playwright and novelist Jim Grimsley for Harland Productions. She served Harold Levy, Chancellor of the New York City Board of Education, as an artistic advisor and consultant for special projects. Corley wrote the screenplay for John David Allen’s short film Love and Roadkill, which has been an official selection and award winning entry at Sedona, Golden State, Montreal, Boston, Williamstown, Charleston, Palm Springs and Durango independent film festivals. With co-screenwriter and director Allen, she wrote Okefenokee, currently in development with Merchant Ivory Productions. Corley adapted Jim Grimsley's novel, Winter Birds, for the screen and wrote Election Central, the story of Carol Ann Hawley, a Las Vegas City Clerk who took on the City of Las Vegas. She has rewritten screenplays for other award-winning writers and filmmakers and taught screenwriting at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she is an Associate Artist with StreetSigns Center for Literature and Performance.