Ellie M. Plourde (SAG/AEA) is a Jewish NYC and Southeast based actor, producer, director & writer. She began performing as a child actor at North Carolina Theatre, on set at Screen Gems in The Dress Code (Dir. Shirley MacLaine), and in various commercials and voiceovers. She studied theater at University of the Arts in Philadelphia and graduated from the Terry Knickerbocker Studio in Brooklyn. Recent credits: Young Bessie in Bettinger's Luggage (AMT Theater), Mrs. Winsley in Stop Kiss (Murmuration Theatre), Midge in Wedding Blues (Players Theatre), Eurydice in Polaroid Stories (Allen’s Lane), Dora Maar in The Artists’ Women (Philly Fringe). She's also acted in several indie films, including starring in Terrence Kirton’s short film, Visitor.  Ellie's interest in socio-politically relevant work inspired her to direct and produce both the Philadelphia and NYC sold-out runs of This Is Not About 9/11 (SoLow Festival).

She is a proud Founder and Co-Artistic Director of Making Our Space Theatre Co., and currently acting in and producing their inaugural Off-off Broadway production of Kin by Bathsheba Doran, directed by Spencer Whale, coming to The Chain Theatre this December.