Danelle Eliav

Danelle Eliav is an actress, filmmaker and producer. Born and raised in Canada, she has performed with Barefoot Theatre Company, The Public Theater, Allentown Shakespeare and spent many years around New York's esteemed LAByrinth Theater Company where she worked closely with Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ellen Burstyn and Michael Shannon. Producing work includes Joshua Z Weinstein's feature MENASHE, which premiered at Sundance and Berlinale 2017, and is being distributed by A24. MENASHE was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, a Gotham Award and won the Jury Award at the Deauville Film Festival. She recently produced Nathan Silver's film THE GREAT PRETENDER starring Esther Garrel (CALL ME BY YOUR NAME), which premiered at Tribeca Film Festival 2018. Producing also includes EMOTICON ;) starring Carol Kane, Sonia Braga, Michael Cristofer and Diane Guerrero and THE SHEIK, a documentary feature film about Iranian wrestling legend the Iron Sheik featuring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Danelle is a writer on MGM and Eko's interactive series #Wargames, a reboot of the 1983 film featuring Mathew Broderick. Classically trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and a graduate of Sanford Meisner's Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York, Danelle is a Founder of WIP - Women Independent Producers and a proud member of Barefoot Theatre Company and Lesser America.