Tj Elliott

T.J. Elliott’s theater writing after a 35-year hiatus came in the 2019 play Alms with co-author Joe Queenan. They also co-authored the problem comedies Grudges, Genealogy and The Oracle. His solo plays include Keeping Right, The Jester’s Wife, and HONOR.

Writing around subjects of knowledge, innovation, learning, and decision-making as Vice President & Chief Learning Officer at Educational Testing Service included Decision DNA co-authored with his late brother John C. Elliott, the foreword to the 2008 Second Edition of Work-Based Learning by Joe Raelin, as well as the lead chapter in Smarter Innovation: Using Interactive Processes to Drive Better Business Results, edited by Katrina Pugh. His Substack is Testing: a Personal History. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Manhattan College and Nova Southeastern University, respectively. T.J. has taught at Columbia University, New York University, and Mercy College

His most recent book, 13 Ways of Looking at Self-Producing, a guide for playwrights, was co-authored with his son Gifford Elliott,

Born in the Bronx, T.J. now lives in Princeton, NJ with his wife, Marjorie Phillips Elliott, with whom he co-founded Knowledge Workings Theater