Actor . Singer . Musician
Fight Director . Intimacy Director
They / Them

Current & Upcoming

Eli is appearing in the World Premiere of Phaedra Michelle Scott's Plantation Black at InterAct Theatre. A cast of six actors play both the Civil War and present-day characters, and each night the play begins at a different point in the timeline when a cast member spins a drum bearing the names of all the scenes in the play.

Past Projects

Eli was nominated for a Barrymore Award for Outstanding Ensemble in The 39 Steps at Lantern Theater Company.

Eli directed the fights for and appeared as a very attractive thug in the short film The Tooth Fairy. The film has won numerous awards, including Best International Short Film at Toronto Global Film Festival, Best Short Film at Hidden Universes IFF Melbourne, and Best Short Editing at Ottowa Film Awards, as well as being featured in numerous international film festivals.

Eli wrote an original adaptation of Joseph Addison's CATO, produced by Philadelphia Artists' Collective and produced on location at historic Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia.

The Museum of the American Revolution held a special panel with several experts in American history and theatre history to discuss Eli's adaptation, and how it lives in context with the original Cato.

Eli was the recipient of the 2024 Barrymore Award for Outstanding Choreography in a Play!

Citrus Andronicus was co-created, written, and performed in by Eli and produced by Philadelphia Artists' Collective.

Eli appeared as a world premiere, trans reimagining of Peter Pan in Peter Panto at People's Light and Theatre.

Eli served as Fight Director and Intimacy Director for Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' The Comeuppance, co-produced by The Wilma Theatre and Woolly Mammoth Theatre.

Reviews

"Eli Lynn's compelling Peter made my imagination fly!"

- Audience member

"Lynn and Ahlin wonderfully render what’s possibly one of the cruelest scenes in all Shakespeare, a sobering conclusion to the spirited escapades that preceded it."

- Kiran Pandey, Broad Street Review

"[...] Imaginative, fearless and incredible. Eli Lynn is an actor of a thousand voices and guises, convincingly, seamlessly and quickly moving from one to the next."

- Lehigh Valley Press

"I haven’t read this play, but I imagine the most frequent stage direction is: “Mayhem ensues.” And it does, especially when Lynn’s fight choreography takes over the second act for a spectacular and hilarious battle."

- Philadelphia Inquirer

"Surely, I am not the only audience member who wants to marry the ensemble that created these two “What You Will” plays; I could watch them do every production I see for the rest of my life."