Elanah Bruce is thrilled to make her Storybook debut as the sleepy crazy Rip Van Winkle! Elanah holds a BFA in Acting from Lipscomb University, where she performed, directed, and served in administrative leadership. Elanah fell in love with theatre herself through theatre camps and cannot wait to bring that magic to the next generation.

Some of her favorite roles have included Celia in As You Like It: For Kids with Shakespeare on the Sound, Polonia u/s in Hamlet with The Nashville Shakespeare Festival with Lipscomb University, as well as serving as the Assistant Director for Little Women the Musical at Lipscomb. She has worked as an acting apprentice for Shakespeare on the Sound and Commonwealth Shakespeare and as the Company Management Intern for Florida Studio Theatre. If you can’t already tell, Elanah is a Shakespeare nerd and in her spare time enjoys reciting Shakespeare randomly, reading books, going for hikes, and writing letters to her friends back home. Oh, and drinking copious amounts of coffee! She cannot wait to fall asleep on stage a million times and tell the story of Twice Upon A Time.