Elaine Davida Sklar has won 8 National Book Awards for Pick A Perfect Party Series for ages: 4-6, 7-9, 10-12. And for her two bilingual books for kids: How I Helped My Grandma Rose and Gimmee! Gimmee! Gimmee!

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Ms. Sklar is the Founder of The Greenwich Repertory Theatre and directed for The Connecticut Playmakers: Stop the World, I Want to Get Off! Sweet Charity, You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, The Mousetrap, Gypsy, Bells Are Ringing, The Seven Year Itch, 50 Years of Music! John Wayne’s Movie Has Been Canceled, Two for The Seesaw, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, and The Wizard of Oz. She served as Drama Chairman for The Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York, and co-founded The Children’s Theater Workshops.

Elaine founded The Bully No More Foundation, Ltd. which supports the Bully No More! musical, the Bully No More Discussion Guide for Teachers, the Bully No More! Store, and grants to schools and theaters in low-income neighborhoods to present the show for free.

Elaine created Bully No More! and received the State of Vermont Award from Governor Philip B. Scott for dedicated service to Vermonters, with her commitment to improving lives of bullied children. Bully No More! is published by Tams-Witmark and Concord Theatricals, and endorsed by The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Prevent Child Abuse Vermont, Governor Phil Scott (R-VT), Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), U.S. Senator Peter Welch (D-VT), Jerry Greenfield (co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s), VT, Secretary of Education, Partnership with Children, and Stand Up To Bullying. The link tree tells everything about the musical: https://linktr.ee/bullynomorefoundation

Ms. Sklar co-wrote a musical rap of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night: Twelfth Night – A Rap-A-Dap-Ta-Tion. Elaine received an Artistic Development Grant from the Vermont Arts Council to work with a Broadway dramaturg on Delilah Sky, a new blues musical.

Elaine holds a bachelor’s degree in Speech and Communications from The University of Michigan, and a master’s in education from Manhattanville College. Elaine Davida Sklar is a co-founder of The Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center.