Elaine Partnow

Elaine Partnow is a Los Angeles-based actor and author known for living history portrayals and quotation collections. Raised in Los Angeles, she began acting in school plays and won Best Actress at the Pasadena Playhouse in a countywide high school contest before majoring in theater arts at UCLA. After college she moved to New York and studied with Uta Hagen and William Hickey at HB Studio. Her screen work includes supporting roles in three Peter Bogdanovich films, cameos, and a leading role in the independent film Slipaway, for which she earned six Best Actress awards at international film festivals. The National Women's History Project has featured her as a performing artist. Her books include The Quotable Woman, first published in 1977 and later in a sixth edition in 2010; The Female Dramatist (1998); and Speaking with Power, Poise & Ease (2012). She developed arts-in-education programs and one-woman shows portraying historical women, and has written screenplays, novels, and poetry.