Eli Batalion is a writer, producer, director, actor and composer for film, TV, the web and the stage. Eli began his career in musical theatre with the hit the award-winning internationally touring play "JOB: The Hip-Hop Musical." He and partner Jerome Sable evolved their theatre work to the screen with the musical horror comedy short The Legend of Beaver Dam, selected to TIFF, Sundance, Berlinale and over 75 global film festivals, from there evolving to the feature horror musical comedy Stage Fright featuring Minne Driver and Meat Loaf. YidLife Crisis, Eli's latest project done with partner Jamie Elman, has been a critical success at the convergence of web series and culture. It has grown from an award-winning fictional web series to various scripted and unscripted digital projects and a global live touring phenomenon. Eli's writing/directing feature film debut, Appiness , is set to shoot in the summer of 2017. Eli holds a DEC in Creative Arts from Dawson College, a B.A. from Brown University and an M.B.A. from HEC Montréal.
