About Me

Elaine Zhang first caught the directing bug when she put up a non-musical stage production of The Sound of Music in eighth grade. Ever since then she has directed, written, and produced theater in her hometown of Beijing as well as New Haven, CT, where she graduated cum laude from Yale University in 2017. Finding herself unable to get off her soapbox about the scripts she read as a director, she decided to join the Master of Entertainment Industry Management program at Carnegie Mellon University to pursue a career in film development and production. 

Ever since moving to LA, she has worked for the Gersh Agency, Legendary Entertainment (Godzilla vs Kong, Detective Pikachu, Dune), Roadside Attractions (Manchester by the Sea), STUDIOCANAL (Paddington 2, Pride and Prejudice) as well as Whitaker Entertainment at Walt Disney Studios (A Wrinkle in Time, Pete's Dragon). She has also served as a consultant for Turner Broadcasting/Adult Swim. She is currently a member of the Television Academy and Film Independent. She speaks Mandarin, English, and French.

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She is currently a Creative Executive to Golden Globe- and Emmy-award winning producer Janet Yang at her production company, Janet Yang Productions.