Elaine Loeser

phone: 734.615.0443
office: 6556 Haven Hall
email: eloeser@earthlink.com


Elaine Loeser is a television writer who has written for network television, including the long-running Law & Order. She is a lawyer who practiced corporate and securities law for a number of years in Washington, D.C, Chicago, IL, and Los Angeles, CA. She has written plays that have had readings in Chicago and a production in New York City, was an originating member of the Pasadena Playwrights, and was selected as a member of the Padua Hills Playwrights Workshop Festival in Los Angeles, under the direction of Irene Fornes, John Steppling and David Henry Hwang. She has studied journalism at the University of Illinois and creative writing at Northwestern University under the noted authors Stewart Kaminsky and Florence Chanuk Cohen. She is a member of the Writers Guild of America, west, and has attended the noted Humanitas lecture series in Los Angeles, featuring award-winning writers in film and television. She has been teaching television writing at the University of Michigan for years.