Elizabeth A. Primamore

Elizabeth Primamore is an author and playwright. Her short stories are published in Sweet Tree Review (Fall, 2019), The Opiate (Spring, 2020), and Hawaii Review (Spring, 2020). Her latest book is titled Shady Women: Three Short Plays (Upper Hand Press, 2018). The plays—Just Fine, The Child’s Best Interest, and Blank—were produced in HB’s Short Play Festivals.
Just Fine was also published in the anthologies Literature and Gender and New America. Craig Lucas and Jack Hofsiss provided dramaturgical support for her full-length play, Undone, which has received readings at The Flea, The Cherry Lane, and Ensemble Studio Theatre. Her play The Professor and Michael Field was a semifinalist for the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference.

Her writing has appeared in New Jersey Monthly, Primo Magazine, American Theatre Magazine, and the anthologies, Pain and Memory and From A to LGBTQ. She is a fellow at The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild.

She is the recipient of the Bernard and Shirley Handel Playwriting Award and was a semifinalist for the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. Her personal essays have been published in the anthologies From A to LGBTQ (650 Press, 2016) and Pain and Memory (2009). Primamore is a fellow at The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and The Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild.

Born in Newark, New Jersey, Elizabeth graduated from the University of London and received her Ph.D. in English literature from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York.