Ellie Moon

Ellie Moon is a Canadian actor, playwright, and screenwriter.[1]

Ellie Moon
NationalityCanadian, British
OccupationActor, playwright, screenwriter
Years active2016–present

Early life

Moon was born in Hong Kong but grew up mostly in Kingsville, Ontario. A dual citizen of the UK and Canada, Moon moved to England in her late teens. [2]

Career

Moon acted in theatre in London, UK including productions at the Bush Theatre and the Tristan Bates Theatre before moving to Toronto, Canada.[3] Moon then began her career in Toronto as a member of the acting company at Soulpepper Theatre Company in 2016-17. She acted in her sold-out playwriting debut Asking For It, which opened both Crow's Theatre and Nightwood Theatre's 2017-18 seasons and earned her a Dora Mavor Moore Award nomination.[4]

Between 2018 and 2020, Moon wrote and premiered two other new plays: What I Call Her at Crow's Theatre and This Was the World at Tarragon Theatre.[5] During this time Moon continued to work as an actor, with roles including Emmy in A Doll's House, Part 2 at Segal Centre for Performing Arts,[6] Asking For It at Thousand Islands Playhouse [7] and the feature film The Last Porno Show which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2019. [8]

Moon wrote and starred in the feature film Adult Adoption, directed by Karen Knox and acquired for distribution in 2021 by levelFILM.[9] That year Moon had roles in Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol and Season 15 of Murdoch Mysteries.

Press

Moon's works as playwright have been described in The Globe and Mail as "a bracing pleasure",[10] as well as "remarkable", "incredible", "astonishingly real", "a showcase of noteworthy skill", "a questing work of art", and "achingly lovely". Martha Schabas writes: "The real marvel here might be how good Moon is at getting under our skin. Her writing demands a kind of interpolation.".[11]

Plays
  • Essential, 2020
  • This Was the World, 2020
  • What I Call Her, 2018
  • Asking For It, 2017

Films
  • Adult Adoption, 2022

Publications
  • Asking For It and Other Plays: Asking For It and What I Call Her (2020) [12]

Activism

Moon created the Secret Shakespeare Series in 2016. It operated until 2018 and raised thousands of dollars for Canadian charities including Leap Manifesto and Street Haven Women's Shelter.[13]

References
  1. "Spotlight: Ellie Moon". Intermission. 2020-02-01. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
  2. https://www.intermissionmagazine.ca/spotlight/spotlight-ellie-moon/. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. "Ellie Moon – Marquis Literary". Retrieved 2021-12-10.
  4. Maga, Carly (November 25, 2018). "Ellie Moon's new play proves she's a theatrical force". The Hamilton Spectator – via www.thespec.com.
  5. "Review: What I Call Her is enlightening in its agony" – via The Globe and Mail.
  6. "Theatre review: Enough wit and female fury to fuel second Doll's House". November 23, 2018.
  7. "Asking For It". Thousand Islands Playhouse. Retrieved 2021-12-06.
  8. The Last Porno Show (2019) - IMDb, retrieved 2021-12-06
  9. "Adult Adoption - IMDb".
  10. "Ghomeshi trial inspired this sly, intelligent play - The Globe and Mail".
  11. "Review: What I Call Her is enlightening in its agony - The Globe and Mail".
  12. "Asking for It: And What I Call Her - Ellie Moon - Google Books".
  13. "Log into Facebook | Facebook". Cite uses generic title (help)
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