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Elizabeth Indianos


 Elizabeth Indianos
Campus
Tarpon Springs Campus
Location
LY 112
Title
Adjunct Faculty
Email
Indianos.Elizabeth@spcollege.edu
Phone
n/a


Elizabeth Indianos - Playwright/Artist/Public Artist

lizart1@mac.com
https://www.facebook.com/libertairetheplay
www.ElizabethIndianos.com
www.waitingforguacamole.com
https://youtu.be/heJ31F7V_Fg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddd5L9F_RrE

BFA University of Florida
MFA University South Florida
Mobil Grant Exploration of New Materials
NEA Grant/Florida Fine Arts Council Artist in Residence
ARF Grant/Waiting for Guacamole

2020 Creative Pinellas Professional Artist Grant
2019 Moxie Award Nominee, Women Playwrights, San Diego, CA
2018 STAR Award Nominee for Play and Director
2017 DGA Dramatist Guild Foundation Emergency Grant
2017 CETL Travel Grant Application (Center of Excellence for Teaching & Learning)
2016 University of South Florida Guest Playwright

Instructor St. Petersburg College Fine Arts Department 2000 – 2020 present
Previous – NEA Artist in Residence, City of Tarpon Springs, tasked to further expand and define the unique culture of Tarpon Springs.
Previous - Cultural Director City of Tarpon Springs
Previous - Mural Program Director

Elizabeth is a playwright and artist who creates large-scale, award-winning Public Art projects, noted for, “enhancing the quality of life, exhibiting long-term vision & innovation.” She was one of the 5,000 design teams in the world to contribute a proposal for the World Trade Center Memorial.

Writings include short stories, poems and the following Interdisciplinary Plays:

Waiting for Guacamole - Inspired by the literary classic, Waiting for Godot, the play is about an down and out, obsessed artist painting avocado while a hurricane brews in the Gulf. 

LIBERTAIRE - both screenplay and produced stage play, is a tale about a woman nobody wanted and the two men who will fight for her; the untold story of Joe Pulitzer, Auguste Bartholdi and Lady Liberty.

NO KNOW NOTHING - WAR MAN, a goose-stepping bully, aims to pull the plug on all cultural artifacts, and put an end to self-expression – but can he?

AMERICAN TAILGATE - A Southern Football Tale


LIBERTAIRE Play Reviews 2018

"This well-written play had more substance in it than most of the current theatrical plays or films. In a time where everything important loses its relevance if it does not lead to financial gains, plays like LIBERTAIRE remind us that there are ideas and values worth fighting for.” — Dimitris Sparos—Consul General of Greece

"LIBERTAIRE... In my mind, really a new form.” — Margaret A. Miller, Director USF Institute for Research in Art Contemporary Art Museum | Graphicstudio

“LIBERTAIRE, the Play is a dazzling display of imagery, symbolism, music and talent. It moves at lightning speed, from scene to scene, place to place—Paris, Egypt, Washington D.C., New York, St. Louis, Colmar and the American West, until the surprise finale—one of those moments that creates tightness in the throat and makes you stand a little straighter through tears...” —
Dr. David C. Edmonds - Award-winning author, Peace Corps Volunteer, Fulbright professor and academic dean.

“This play has lessons deeper than its visible story and is well worth seeing any time or any place it’s presented.” —The Theatre Grapevine June 2018

LIBERTAIRE, the Play, STAR AWARD NOMINATIONS 2018
Favorite Director – Elizabeth Indianos;
Favorite Play - Favorite Actor; Actress; Supporting Actor & Actress; Lighting Design

LIBERTAIRE Screenplay Awards include:
2018 Anchorage Film Festival Top Four Scripts
2017 Vancouver International Women in Film Festival –Official Selection Top Ten Script;
2016 QUARTER FINALIST NICHOLLS FELLOWSHIP (Top 5%. 357 of 6915 scripts);
2016 WINNER BEST SCREENPLAY 1st  25th Woods Hole Film Festival;
2016 WINNER BEST SCREENPLAY 2016 19th Long Island International Film Expo
2016 Toronto 14th Female Eye Film Festival TOP TEN Screenplay
2013 WINNER BEST SCREENPLAY LA Femme International Film Festival
2013 WINNER BEST HISTORIC SCREENPLAY Table Read My Screenplay Sundance
2013 WINNER (3rd) Willifest, Williamsburg International Film Festival

Waiting for Guacamole (www.WaitingforGuacamole.com)

Inspired by Samuel Beckett's play, Waiting for Godot (1948), and written over five decades later, Waiting for Guacamole is not a modern retelling of the Beckett play, but rather is inspired by and loosely based upon the literary classic.
The story takes place in a small, Gulf Coast town in Florida. The protagonist Ezmeralda is a broke artist. Exhausted from struggling in life and tired of waiting for something good to happen, she paints avocados in her ex-husband’s backyard, sitting underneath a
mammoth, ancient avocado tree. When a hurricane looms in the Gulf, she begins to feel an obsessive connection with the botanical and conflicts, old and new, inch towards the surface, pushing everyone in Ezmeralda's life to the brink.



Waiting for Guacamole Reviews:

"One of the most unusual events ever in this area ... blends comedy and drama with music and art for a project that tries to satisfy a range of tastes." - Barbara Fredrickson St. Petersburg Times

"Filled with immense heart and humanity... a breath of fresh air." Deidre Hall TWW Theatre Co. NY

"More of a mix of tasty art forms than simply a play, art exhibit or musical." - Amy Roundtree Tampa Tribune Sun Coast News

"A thrilling acrobatic blend of the arts..." - Suzi Gablik Art Critic and Author of: Has Modernism Failed

• Semifinalist NYC’s Multistages Theater New Works
• Guest Playwright and Play Development University of South Florida Theatre Department
• Florida Artist Development Grant

Membership

Dramatist Guild
NYWFT - New York Women in Film and Television
WIF – Women in Film
Women in the Arts & Media Coalition
Writer’s Guild America West
AFGLC American Foundation Greek Learning & Culture
IMDbPro

Public Art
Over the past thirty years the artist’s diverse and varied work has developed in a spirit of exploration through a wide variety of themes and technology. Many Public Art projects received Planning Commission Awards of Excellence for works that, “Enhance the quality of life, exhibit long-term vision, innovation, design quality and environmental sensitivity.”
Public Art ( www.ElizabethIndianos.com ) Large Scale projects include:
The 13th Street Pedestrian Bridge Gainesville, Florida;
Solar Walk, Gainesville Florida; One-mile Pedestrian Walkway, billion to one ratio Planetary walk.
Northwest Florida State College Sundial, Niceville, Florida;
Southern Transportation and Marion Street Plaza’s, Tampa Florida;
Eastland Transit Center, Charlotte North Carolina;
Birds Leaving the Earth Large scale Installation Tampa International Airport Collection.


Hot Hibiscus Ft. Lauderdale, Florida Libraries, hanging Sculptures


Classical Divide - USF’s Sarasota campus, outdoor mosaic


2020 Current work in progress:

The Spirit of this Plot of Earth – Large-scale, Historical Mural, historical building, The Cultural Center (previous City Hall) City of Tarpon Springs, Florida.

NO KNOW NOTHING- Goose-stepping bully, WARMAN, aims to pull the plug on all cultural artifacts and put an end to self-expression – but can he?

AMERICAN TAILGATE - A Southern Football tale - Theatrical play development