ELIJAH GUO is a bicoastal writer, actor, musician, director and producer. His absurdist Times Square play "Tourist Trap" – a Top 12 Finalist at the Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Festival – was recently produced at Ars Nova ANT Fest, and his demonic band camp play "Button Lake Band Camp" premiered at Clubbed Thumb Winterworks. His play "Birdigo", Hitchcock's The Birds from the birds' point of view, premiered at The Brick's ?!: New Works (with himself in a starring role as Quacky Stewart). His Shakespeare-coming-to-life TV pilot "My Friend Will" premiered at Tribeca and streamed on The Roku Channel. His existential Hollywood TV series "Stand-Ins" premiered at the Emmys-sponsored Catalyst Content Festival. "Saint Valentine", his pilot about a gay Catholic priest, spent time on the Black List's Quarterly Top List. Elijah is an alum of the Clubbed Thumb Early Career Writers' Group, a Sundance Screenwriting Challenge winner, Emmys Foundation Fellowship finalist, David Mamet Playwriting Contest winner (at American Conservatory Theater), David Nathan Meyerson Fiction Prize finalist (at Southwestern Review), and BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop attendee. 

As an actor, Elijah’s credits include “Patriots Day” (CBS Films/Lionsgate), “Law & Order: SVU” (NBC), “The Blacklist” (NBC), “Power” (Starz), and recurring roles on “High Maintenance” (HBO) and opposite Adam Brody on “StartUp” (Netflix/Crackle). In addition, he can be seen in "Fit Model" (Criterion Collection / New York Film Festival) and a possibly-aired bit on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" (CBS). He has performed in Ma-Yi / Second Generations' "Short Stack" program at La MaMa, in Rehana Lew Mirza's "Churn Your Own Butter". Recently, he acted and composed music as a gender-bending piano-playing goddess for Greg T. Nanni's "Love Among Dreamers" at the Tony-winning company Broadway For All. He's an avid pianist, guitarist and trumpeter, whose original song "Why Don't You Let Me Be?" is streaming on Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube. Elijah is an MFA Acting graduate of the American Repertory Theater Institute at Harvard, and holds BAs in English and Theater/Performance Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, where he received the Departmental Citation (an award, not a parking ticket) for his work with Poet Laureate Robert Hass to adapt the author's collection "Time and Materials" to the stage. Most importantly, he's an Academy graduate of the Upright Citizens Brigade, so he has a certificate of being funny.

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Elijah is a genderfluid soul and a proud Chinese-American who wasn’t raised particularly Chinese – but it makes for some interesting stories about intersectionality. Website: elijahguo.com |  Instagram: @elijahguo