Ellie M. Plourde (SAG/AEA) is a Jewish NYC and Southeast based actor, producer, director & writer. She began performing as a child actor at North Carolina Theatre, on set at Screen Gems in The Dress Code (Dir. Shirley MacLaine), and in various commercials and voiceovers. She studied theater at University of the Arts in Philadelphia and graduated from the Terry Knickerbocker Studio in Brooklyn. Recent credits: Young Bessie in Bettinger's Luggage (AMT Theater), Mrs. Winsley in Stop Kiss (Murmuration Theatre), Midge in Wedding Blues (Players Theatre), Eurydice in Polaroid Stories (Allen’s Lane), Dora Maar in The Artists’ Women (Philly Fringe). She's also acted in several indie films, including starring in Terrence Kirton’s short film, Visitor. Ellie's interest in socio-politically relevant work inspired her to direct and produce both the Philadelphia and NYC sold-out runs of This Is Not About 9/11 (SoLow Festival). She is currently producing an Off-Broadway production of Trudy & Max in Love by Zoe Kazan and is the Co-Founder and Producer of Making Our Space, a non-profit backed actor's showcase that gives actors their agency back, cultivates community and bridges the gap between actors and industry professional.
"ELLIE BRINGS TREMENDOUS PASSION
TO THE STAGE"
--Stage Magazine
"SIMPLY PUT, ELLIE IS A FORCE."
--Lee Edward Colston II, Film & TV Writer, Producer, Playwright, Director & Actor
"I WAS IMPRESSED BY HER OPEN SPIRIT AND THE UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE AND BOLD CHOICES SHE BROUGHT TO HER ROLES."
--Lisa Donadio, Casting Director at Playwrights Horizons
MARCH
Playing the role of "Beatrice" in the staged reading of Brooklyn Playwright LR Savage's Silent Treatment (or ...Of Natural Causes) as part of
Haley's Rice's New Works Series at MCS Theater.
JANUARY
For the second time, produced and performed in the Making Our Space Showcase, an industry-only non-profit backed showcase, of which she is also the Co-Founder.
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER
Appeared Off Broadway as
"Young Bessie" in AMT Theater's
Bettinger's Luggage, written and produced by Peabody Award winner,
Al Tapper, and directed by
Steven Ditmyer.