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 a proud Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Making Our Space Theatre Co., and currently acting in and producing their inaugural Off-off Broadway production of Kin by Bathsheba Doran, directed by Spencer Whale, coming to The Chain Theatre this December.
"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
DECEMBER 2024
Performing in Making Our Space Theatre Co.'s inaugural production of Kin by Bathsheba Doran, directed by Spencer Whale, running for the first three weeks of December at The Chain Theatre.
MAY 2024
Produced and performed in the third Making Our Space Showcase, an industry-only non-profit backed showcase, of which she is also the Co-Founder.
MARCH 2024
Played 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 2024
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.
OCTOBER 2023
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.