THE INGENUE

Eleanor Burgess’s play Galilee, 34 premiered at South Coast Repertory in 2024. Her previous plays, including The Niceties, Wife of a Salesman, Start Down, Chill and Sparks Fly Upward, have been produced at theaters across the United States, including Manhattan Theatre Club, Geffen Playhouse, McCarter Theatre Center, Huntington Theatre Company, Writers Theatre, Milwaukee Rep, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Alliance Theatre and the Contemporary American Theater Festival. She has developed work at Playwrights Horizons, The New Group and Ensemble Studio Theatre and been a member of the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group at Primary Stages, Page 73's writers' group Interstate 73, The Civilians’ R&D Group and New York Theatre Workshop’s 2050 Fellowship. She has also written extensively for film and television, including work on “Little House on the Prairie” for Netflix, “Interview with the Vampire” for AMC, “WeCrashed” for Apple TV+ and “Perry Mason” for HBO. Originally from Massachusetts, she studied history at Yale College and Dramatic Writing at NYU/Tisch.