Elizabeth Dudak, also known as Betsy Dudak, is a neurodivergent playwright who lives in a small town outside Chicago with her rescue dog, Barkly, who thinks he’s a cat. Betsy’s ten-minute play, Christmas Disbelief, will be part of the Ten Play of Christmas Podcast in the United Kingdom on December 22, 2024. Goodbye, My Girls, a play about the night before a woman’s double mastectomy, was part of Scottsdale, AZ’s B3 Theatre’s First Feminist Short Play Festival in January of 2024. It was also included in Chicago’s Heart to Heart Festival in early April, in Brentwood, CA’s Festival 10’s production mid-April of 2024, and will be performed in July at the Tubu Theater (a theater for people with disabilities) in July 2024. Her ten-minute play, Gloria and Her Dragons, a play about grief and dementia, was chosen as one of 20 plays to be a part of the Los Angeles Roads Theater 2022 Readers Theater Summer Playwrights Festival.

As E. A. Tobolski, she penned her first nonfiction book, See Me Grieve: A Widow’s Journey, a series of essays based on the sudden, unexpected death of her husband, who had been her person for 33 years. What the Heck, Dec!!, her first romance novel, was a Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence finalist. Wanna Bet, the second in the Reed Brothers series, was a 2020 Contemporary Romance Stiletto Contest finalist.

Elizabeth has been taking playwriting classes for the past three years at the University of Chicago’s Graham School and through The Dramatist Guild. She is currently working on more ten-minute plays, a long-length play, and a third romance book. For more information on Betsy and all her work, please visit her website at www.betsydudak.net or contact her at elizabethdudakauthor@gmail.com.