About

Ellie is a Dora nominated actor and has appeared in stage productions in Canada including at Soulpepper Theatre Company, Crow’s Theatre, the Segal Centre for the Performing Arts, Nightwood Theatre, and Thousand Islands Playhouse. Moon’s UK stage credits include roles at the Bush Theatre and the Tristan Bates Theatre, off-West end. Moon’s onscreen acting work includes Pretty Hard Cases, The Lost Symbol, The Last Porno Show (TIFF), Murdoch Mysteries, Terminally In Love (Cannes), as well as Adult Adoption, her first feature film (written/starring, GFF), and Art Baby, her first short (co-written/starring, Fantasia). Ellie narrated the audiobooks for Claudia Dey’s Daughter and Fawn Parker’s Hi, It’s Me.

Adult Adoption premiered at the Glasgow Film Festival in 2022. It received excellent reviews with Kat Hughes for The Hollywood News writing: “Moon’s script & performance shine in Karen Knox’s fantastically constructed world. Adult Adoption is well on its way to become this era’s (slightly more grown-up) Juno.” Nico Marrone for The Wee Review, Scotland’s arts & culture magazine: “Simply put, Adult Adoption is incredible.” SpoilerTV described the film as “a quirky, free-spirited triumph” starring “a brilliant Ellie Moon.” The film received a North American theatrical release with levelFILM and was one of the top 10 independent films in the North American box office (location average) on its opening weekend. Adult Adoption was a Globe & Mail Critic’s Pick and later featured as one of The Globe & Mail’s “Best Films of 2023."

Ellie’s playwriting debut, Asking For It, premiered in 2017 as both Crow’s and Nightwood’s 2017-18 season opener. It was named one of both Intermission Magazine and NOW Magazine’s “Top 10 Theatre Productions of 2017” and called, “a questing work of art”, “a bracing pleasure…a sly, intelligent piece of documentary theatre” (The Globe & Mail), “riveting…essential viewing” (NOW), and “an incredible accomplishment…vital theatre” (Intermission).

Ellie’s second play, What I Call Her, premiered at Crow’s Theatre the following year, in their 2018-19 season. It was called: “Enlightening in its agony…incredible…some serious art…a showcase of noteworthy skill…remarkable…astonishingly real…simple and achingly lovely…the real marvel here might be how good Moon is at getting under our skin. Her writing demands a kind of interpolation” (The Globe & Mail). What I Call Her is currently being developed as a feature film with director Karen Knox, and Executive Producer Molly McGlynn.

Ellie’s third play, This Was the World, premiered at the Tarragon Theatre, in their 2019-20 season. It was called: “sly and often screwy…Moon pulls the rug out from whatever you think the argument is on a regular basis….unforgettable” (The Globe & Mail), “tenacious…electrifying…boldly probes expansive issues” (OnStage Blog) and “Imagining a narrative where lives are simultaneously torn apart and held together by complex intersecting storylines is no small task. Ellie Moon does this in her play This Was the World with the structural and creative finesse of a truly remarkable playwright.” (Bateman Reviews).

Ellie’s first two plays are published in a single collection with Talonbooks (Asking For It: and What I Call Her, 2020). Ellie founded the charitable Secret Shakespeare Series, which operated from 2016 to 2018, included dozens of Canadian artists and raised thousands for Canadian charities. Ellie was playwright-in-residence at the Tarragon Theatre, and has worked as a writer in series development rooms, and as a story editor, dramaturge, and script consultant for projects ranging from opera to film. She has been a guest artist at drama departments including Humber and Queens. Ellie is currently developing several onscreen projects, and her debut novel.