Biography
Jon Elston is the award-winning author of over forty plays and musicals, produced in Buffalo, NYC, Washington D.C., and online. In 2002 Elston co-founded Buffalo’s Road Less Traveled Productions, where he supported the development of hundreds of new plays and the production of nearly forty world premieres by WNY playwrights. He also founded in 2013 and continues to run the Alleyway Teen Ensemble, a seasonal program supporting students (ages 11-18) as they write or devise and produce original short plays. Elston has taught and directed at the University of Buffalo, SUNY Niagara, Medaille College, Villa Maria, and the University of Omaha, as well as in WNY schools as a theatre instructor and certified ELA teacher. Currently he teaches at SUNY Erie and is thrilled to return to NU to teach Playwriting.