Ms. Earl is an Assistant Professor of English at Hampton University in Hampton, VA., where she has been named Chair of the English Department’s Film Committee and Chair of Hampton University’s Athletics Committee. In addition to teaching courses such as Introduction to Screenwriting, Introduction to Motion Pictures, Introduction to Literature, Written Communication (Honors), and Black American Theatre, she has produced many events for the university. In 2006 guests included Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple, film producers Reuben Canon( Medea’s Family Reunion, Down in the Delta) Paul Hall(Higher Learning), and Monty Ross ( She’s Got to Have It, Malcolm X). Currently, she is a producer on the Omar Tyree adaptation, Leslie, which is in development. Monty Ross is also a producer on this film which is being Executive Produced by Arthur Wylie and Omar Tyree.
Prior to joining the staff at Hampton University, Ms. Earl was an Adjunct Professor of Communication Studies and Humanities at Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA from 1998 to 2003.
She has been teaching at the collegiate level in the areas of Communication Studies, Humanities, Theatre, and English for ten years. She has lectured at Pepperdine University and The DeVry Institute of Technology in California; Hampton University and Tidewater Community College in Virginia; and Queens College in New York.
She was given the National Collegiate Communication Arts Award in 1993, and was certified to teach for The University of Phoenix in 1999. She was also a Yip Harburg Fellow at New York University. She has also been an Advisory Board member for the Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival since 2001.
Ms. Earl received a B.A. in Rhetoric and Communication Studies from The University of Virginia in May of 1993. In December of 1994 she earned an M.A. in Humanities with emphases in Communication, English Literature, and Theatre from Old Dominion University, with graduate credits in English Literature from The Institute for Scholars in International Studies held at Oxford University in Oxford, England. In May of 1997, in her 20’s, she took an M.F.A. in Musical Theatre Writing as a Bookwriter/ Librettist/ Lyricist from The Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.

Ms. Earl is the Business Manager of “Hollywood’s Living Legend of Urban Comedy” and BET Comic View’s former Co-Host, Reynaldo Rey. Mr. Rey’s production company, Sweet Redd Enterprises, and E. L. Earl Entertainment, have partnered in developing feature film and television projects, and “live” shows. They are currently co-executive producing a feature film, “Chicago Redd,” based on the friendship of Rey and Redd Foxx during the 12 years Foxx managed his career (www.reynaldorey.com).
She is also managing Bruce George, Co- Founder and former Co- Executive Producer of Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry on HBO. Mr.George received a Peabody Award for his groundbreaking work on the project( www.brucegeorgemedia.com).

E . L. Earl Entertainment enjoyed a joint-venture with Tammy McCrary, Chaka Khan’s Manager and Project Developer, of Earthsong Entertainment and Vertex Records, to develop “live events” and film and television projects. E . L. Earl Entertainment shared offices with Earthsong Entrainment and Vertex Records in North Hollywood ,CA for over two years.
As a writer, Ms. Earl has had staged readings of her plays and musicals at such venues as Her Majesty’s Theatre and Covent Garden’s Africa Centre in London. Several of her original plays have been produced off-off Broadway in New York. She was a member of the Blacksmyths, a writing workshop at the Mark Taper Forum in L.A., and performed her one-woman show, for which she wrote both text and music, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland.
Currently, she is completing libretto and music for an opera, an adaptation of the 1861 slave narrative, “Incidents in the Life of a Slavegirl.” Orchestration and additional music are being provided by world-renowned composer/conductor, Shirley Thompson of London, England.
As an actress, poet, and singer Eleanor has performed in London, Scotland, New York, and Los Angeles. She has shared the stage with Carol Maillord of the internationally acclaimed singing group “Sweet Honey in the Rock,” celebrated poet Amiri Baraka, and she was featured as a poet alongside Nikki Giovanni and Sonia Sanchez for the “Saturn Women 2 Women Tour” at the 20th Century Fox Studios in Los Angeles, CA. As a singer she has performed with legendary artists like Andrae Crouch and Billy Preston.
Currently, E. L. Earl Entertainment is in development on “Hamlet: The Calling,” a gospel movie musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Hamlet.” NYU Graduate Film Alumni Ed Durante and Rohan Sen wrote the script.
E. L. Communications, Inc., a subsidiary of E. L. Earl Entertainment, has also developed a series that offers sports and entertainment professionals an opportunity to receive enhancement in media training, public speaking, life skills, and many other areas. The program targets both professional athletes and entertainers in film, music, television, and stage.
Contact:
(757) 727-5506 –--- Hampton University Office
(310) 936-1855----cell phone
eleanor.earl@hamptonu.edu or filmandtvbiz@earthlink.net----e-mail