about the author

About Author

Elaine Davida Sklar

Elaine Davida Sklar (playwright, lyricist, producer, director, and educator) was the Artistic Director of The Greenwich Repertory Theater, and directed for The Connecticut Playmakers. Ms. Sklar served as Drama Chairman for The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York, and co-founded The Children’s Theater Workshops. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Speech and Communications from The University of Michigan, and a Master’s in Education from Manhattanville College. Elaine created the musical Bully No More! published by Tams-Witmark and Concord Theatricals. Ms. Sklar co-wrote a musical rap adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night with Bob Zaslow, and wrote the book for the new blues/pop musical Delilah Sky with award-winning Nashville composers, The Twangtown Paramours. Elaine Davida wrote a bilingual, children’s, English-Spanish book, How I Helped My Grandma Rose, and is the author of a new murder mystery novel edited by Mary Cole of Andrea Brown Literary Agency and The Good Story Company. Ms. Sklar directed Stop The World, I Want To Get Off! Sweet Charity, You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, The Mousetrap, Gypsy, Bells Are Ringing, The Seven Year Itch, 50 Years of Music! John Wayne’s Movie Has Been Canceled, Two For The Seesaw, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, and The Wizard of Oz. Elaine Davida co-wrote the Pick A Perfect Party series with Jayne Brug Callahan. Elaine lives in Vermont, where she is a co-founder of The Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center.