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Jan Eliasberg is an award-winning writer/director with an MFA in Directing from the Yale School of Drama and an MFA in Fiction from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson, where she was mentored by Charles Baxter, Joan Silber and Antonya Nelson. HANNAH'S WAR is her debut novel -- HANNAH'S WAR will be published by Little, Brown on March 3, 2020.
Eliasberg has a notable career as a screenwriter, writing films and television series driven by strong female leads. She wrote W.A.S.P. about the Women Air Service Pilots in WWII for Nicole Kidman and Cameron Diaz at FOX. Mi Corazon was written for Universal, with Jennifer Lopez attached to star. She wrote Heart ‘N Soul, a “hip hop Pygmalion” for Warner Brothers, and The Gemcutter, a YA historic Jan Eliasberg is an award-winning writer/director with an MFA in Directing from the Yale School of Drama and an MFA in Fiction from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson, where she was mentored by Charles Baxter, Joan Silber and Antonya Nelson. HANNAH'S WAR is her debut novel -- HANNAH'S WAR will be published by Little, Brown on March 3, 2020.
Eliasberg has a notable career as a screenwriter, writing films and television series driven by strong female leads. She wrote W.A.S.P. about the Women Air Service Pilots in WWII for Nicole Kidman and Cameron Diaz at FOX. Mi Corazon was written for Universal, with Jennifer Lopez attached to star. She wrote Heart ‘N Soul, a “hip hop Pygmalion” for Warner Brothers, and The Gemcutter, a YA historical fantasy, for Sony. She is attached to direct all of her original screenplays.
Her screenplay, Heart of the Atom, has been honored by the Black List; the BBC Short List; Film Independent’s prestigious Producers Lab, and the Athena Film Festival’s Best Screenplays about female leaders.
She adapted the screenplay of Heart of the Atom into a novel – now known as Hannah’s War – which was pre-emptively bought by Judy Clain at Little Brown as their lead title for Spring 2020.
Heart of the Atom is the story of a female Austrian physicist working on the critical assemblies team of the Manhattan Project in the alien world of Los Alamos, NM in 1945. She has a hidden past in Germany, one that makes her the prime suspect when an army investigator arrives with a chilling mission: to rout out a spy leaking secrets to the Nazis.
For television, Eliasberg was a writer/producer and director for six seasons of NBC’s Sisters. She wrote Spirit of St. Louis, a pilot for CBS and CBS Studios, and two pilots for Fox and Fox Studios, The Blue Line, with Angela Bassett attached, and Fearless.
Eliasberg is currently in development on her original film, Before I Sleep, with Sophia Lillis (IT, IT 2, NANCY DREW) starring. BEFORE I SLEEP traces the complex and unlikely bonds that develop between two women – an architect, already devastated by the sudden death of her fiancée, whose world implodes when his runaway daughter shows up on her doorstep. Their harrowing journey from Los Angeles to Montana, with a life-threatening detour through Reno, NV, leads them to an unexpected catharsis and liberation. BEFORE I SLEEP is an exploration of loss, grief, love and hope, as seen through a uniquely female point of view.
Eliasberg’s prolific directing career includes the feature film, Past Midnight, starring Paul Giamatti, the late Natasha Richardson, and Rutger Hauer. She is known for nurturing performances in film, television and theatre from some of the finest actors of our generation: among them Michael B. Jordan, Michelle Williams, George Clooney, Frances McDormand, Tony Shalhoub, Stanley Tucci, and John Turturro.
Eliasberg was hand picked by Michael Mann to be the first female director of the ground-breaking television series MIAMI VICE, followed by Mann’s critically-acclaimed CRIME STORY. She went on to shatter more glass ceilings as the first female director of the award-winning series WISEGUY, among many others. She has directed dramatic pilots for CBS, NBC, and ABC, as well as countless episodes of television series, including Bull, Nashville, Parenthood, The Magicians, Blue Bloods, NCIS: Los Angeles, Supernatural, and dozens of others. In the course of her career as a director, she has won the EMMY, IMAGEN, and the NAACP IMAGE awards.
Eliasberg received her BA from Wesleyan University, Magna Cum Laude and an MFA in Fiction from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson. She is a graduate of the prestigious AFI Directing Workshop for Women, where she made her short film, The Doctor, which won the “Best Fiction Short Film Award” at the Los Angeles Film Festival.
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Eliasberg’s fast-paced, insightful debut explores one woman’s anxiety about helping to create the world’s first nuclear weapon. Dr. Hannah Weiss, a Jew who escaped Nazi Germany, works with the Americans on the atom bomb in 1945 Los Alamos, N.Mex., where, thanks to her ex Read more of this blog post »

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“A time of war is a time of amplified connection and disconnection. Our allegiance to everything we love takes on a dangerous primacy, while our fear of everything we hate dons the sheep's clothing of righteousness.”
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“The Torah talks about the Sabbath in different ways. We're told in Exodus to remember, zachor, and keep it holy. In Devarim, it says to observe, shamor, and keep it holy. Zachor speaks to the positive, the bread, wine, prayer, and song, everything we celebrate, eat and drink, and rejoice in. Shamor speaks to the negative - that which is prohibited, the work and play we set aside, the pleasures from which we abstain. This isn't to say these things are good or bad, Hannah. It does not refer to right or wrong. More like inhale and exhale. That which we choose to keep and that which we choose to let go - both are holy.”
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“Why didn't you turn on your heel and walk away?" Oppenheimer's remorseless gaze settled on the horizon. "I'll tell you why - no true scientist would walk away from the possibility of releasing the energy of matter itself, literally transforming the composition of things. Your'er the same as all of us. Our curiosity is boundless. Our morality is convenient.”
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