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Meet a NYFA Artist: Ela Thier
NYFA speaks with 2008 Playwriting/Screenwriting Fellow Ela Thier. NYFA: Hi Ela, what are you working on at the moment? ET: The short “A Summer Rain”, based on my personal experiences, is a story about an 11-year-old immigrant girl from Israel and the friendship she forms in the US with a Vietnamese refugee her age. In…