Ellen Gould is an Emmy Award-winning writer and performer. Inspired by artists like Spalding Gray, John Leguizamo and Anna Deavere Smith, Ellen is one of the first writer/performers to extend solo theater into the musical realm. She is perhaps best known for Bubbe Meises, Bubbe Stories, which opened to critical acclaim and a successful Off Broadway run followed by a multi-year national tour. The made-for-television version of Bubbe Meises, which aired on PBS, won Ellen two Emmys for her work as writer and performer.
Her other original musicals include Confessions of a Reformed Romantic, Miracle of the Five Hannahs, The Glass House, Blessed is the Match and The Last Checker, all of which received New York productions. Ellen’s other performance credits include leading roles in productions from The Public Theater to Lincoln Center as well as leading and featured roles on HBO, PBS and NPR. A native of Worcester, Massachusetts, she is a graduate of Brandeis University, has an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and was the recipient of a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship in Music.