List of Affiliations and Rewards
Photo Credit: Walter Wlodarczyk
SELECTED AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES:
Upcoming: Summer Session 4 Visiting Artist at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
2025 Environmental Educator of the Year Award, RI Environmental Ed Association
2025 Wedding Cake House Parent/Teen Family Residency, Providence, RI
2024 Providence Commemoration Lab, Providence, RI
2022, 2023 Fresh Ground Pepper EcoTheater Lab, Little Pond, Nazarene, PA
2023 Mercury Store, ‘wrack zone’ residency, Brooklyn, NY
2021-2022 Queer.Archive.Work printshop residency, Providence, RI
2021 RI State Council for the Arts, Project Grant, Pawtucket, RI
2021 Subcircle Residency, Biddeford, ME
2020 Millay Arts Residency, Austerlitz, NY
2020 Company One PlayLab Unit, Boston, MA
SELECTED AFFILIATIONS:
2025-Present Cohort member, From the Ground Up, capacity building for environmental
educators led by Movement Education Outdoors in partnership with RI D.E.M.
2023-2024 Cohort member, Devised Theater Working Group, The Public Theater, NY, NY
2018-Present Member, New Georges Jam Theater-Makers Working Group, NY, NY
2014-Present Organizing member/co facilitator, White Noise Collective (became Showing Up
For Racial Justice (SURJ-RI)
2007-Present Member, brotherdykes unlimited (queer clown crew)
2023-2024 Mentee in The Creature Conserve Mentorship Program, Providence, RI
Eli has MFAs in Writing for Performance (Brown University, 2018) and in Interdisciplinary Art (Goddard College, 2009) and a BA in Human Ecology (College of the Atlantic, 1999).