Elias is a playwright and screenwriter. His mainstage debut Green Park directed by Declan Greene, returned to the stage for Sydney Festival in 2022, after a sold-out, critically acclaimed premiere at Griffin Theatre Company in 2021. Green Park was nominated for Best Mainstage Production at the Sydney Theatre Awards and shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting.
He is currently commissioned by LGBT Activist and ‘78er Robyn Kennedy to write Camp, a new play based on interviews with Australia’s pioneer homosexual rights activists. Camp will premiere at Sydney World Pride 2023. He is also writing A House on a Street in a Valley called Gomorrah, based in part on the Barwon Heads contamination cluster, and with development funding and support from Creative Victoria and Geelong Arts Centre. He has presented new writing for Cybec Electric at Melbourne Theatre Company, Playlist at RedStitch Actors Theatre, Australian Theatre for Young People, and Periscope Productions. Previously, he has been shortlisted for the Screen NSW Emerging Writers’ Incubator (2021), the Next Stage Residency at Melbourne Theatre Company (2018), the National Script Workshop at Playwriting Australia (2016), and the Silver Gull Play Award (2018). He is a recipient of the Jim Marks Scholarship, University of Melbourne. He is an alumnus of the Fresh Ink National Mentorship and National Studio at the Australian Theatre for Young People. Elias graduated with a Master of Writing for Performance at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2017.
