Elaine Ávila

Elaine Ávila’s plays are produced in Panamá City, Sintra, Pico, Costa Rica, Paris, London, New York, Lisbon, Australia, Los Angeles, Edmonton, Vancouver and Victoria, and include Jane Austen, Action Figure (Best New Play, Festival de los Cocos); Lieutenant Nun (Best New Play, Victoria Critics Circle); Kitimat (Mellon Foundation Commission); Fado: the Saddest Music in the World (Named Top Latinx Plays in U.S, Sure Fire List in Canada, Best Musical); and Café a Brasileira (Best Play, Disquiet International, Lisbon). 

Her collected works are available from NoPassport Press. Her nonfiction is published by York University Press, Routledge, Theatre Communications Group, Smith and Kraus, EnRoute, Howlround, Canadian Theatre Review, American Theater, Portuguese American Review, Lusitania, Contemporary Theatre Review and Café Onda. She is the co-founder of the International Climate Change Theatre Action, involving 50 playwrights, 200 venues and 12,000 audience members worldwide. She is the Fulbright Scholar to the Azores and lives in New Westminster.