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, Factory 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 (CBC/NBC), The Lost Symbol (Peacock), Silver Cord (Davin Lengyel), The Last Porno Show (TIFF), Murdoch Mysteries (CBC), Terminally In Love (Cannes), as well as Adult Adoption, her first feature film (written/starring, The Globe & Mail Best Films of 2023), and Art Baby, her first short (co-written/starring, Fantasia). Ellie recently completed her sophomore feature film as screenwriter/lead, Young Female Playwright.

Adult Adoption received excellent reviews following its premiere, 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, was one of the top 10 independent films in the North American box office (location average) on its opening weekend, and is now streaming. 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 a sold-out run 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).

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 included dozens of Canadian artists and raised thousands for Canadian charities. She 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 narrated the audiobooks for Claudia Dey’s Daughter and Fawn Parker’s Hi, It’s Me.