Biography

Elizabeth Coplan is a 40-year marketing and public relations veteran who turned her personal loss and grief into the groundbreaking play, Grief Dialogues and built the nonprofit Grief Dialogues, a theatrical movement to create new conversations about dying, death, and grief.

Her other playwriting credits include the award-winning Hospice: A Love Story, as well as Honoring Choices, Untold, Independence Day, and Death, Doctor among other plays. She is also the script consultant, director, and producer for Juntos Nos Ayudamos/Better Together with Dr. Enedina Enriquez.

The stage play Honoring Choices was first commissioned for Honoring Choices PNW in late 2019 and performed live in February 2020. Subsequently it was produced on Zoom throughout 2020 and 2021 with the original cast, an African-American cast, and a Latinx cast in Spanish. In 2022, the demand for performances expanded into the necessity to develop a film. Honoring Choices (the film) is now available for licensing and is an official selection of the Legacy Film Festival on Aging presentation in 2023.

Elizabeth is also the Out of Grief Comes Art podcast creator and co-host, and the Executive Producer of 8 AM, a short film on traumatic loss.

Elizabeth's most recent play, Over My Dead Body is currently in Off-Broadway development. An updated version of Grief Dialogues will be staged in the New York area in 2023.
- IMDb mini biography by: Elizabeth Coplan