Biography
Eleanor Burgess is a playwright and screenwriter. She has written for the television series Perry Mason (2020) and Little House on the Prairie (2026), and contributed to Interview with the Vampire (2022) and WeCrashed (2022).
Her plays include The Niceties, Wife of a Salesman, Galilee, 34 and others. They have been produced at venues including Manhattan Theatre Club, South Coast Repertory, Geffen Playhouse and the Finborough Theatre in London. She has developed work at Playwrights Horizons, the New Group and Ensemble Studio Theatre.
Burgess studied history at Yale College and dramatic writing at NYU Tisch. Originally from Massachusetts, she has also written screenplays for Bad Robot, Amblin and Anonymous Content.
