Composer, Ellen Fishman creates multimedia performances for audiences who crave new experiences at the intersection of art, music and technology. Her interactive works are designed to engage the audience in ways that invites choice. After awarded a 2017 Opera America Grant for Female Composers for the development of Marie Begins, a pilot of this interactive opera was produced as an online series featuring Grammy nominated soprano, Lauren Worsham. Since then, Marie Begins was selected for a workshop performance by Tri-Cities Opera for the Opera America New Works Forum in New York in January, 2018 and a full workshop was performed at Arizona State University in September 2018. Software was recently completed to enable audience interaction and Marie Begins will be premiered by the Opera Theater program at Westminster Choir College of Rider University in November 2020. She is currently working on expanding a 360 degree immersive piano composition, Ruptures which was premiered by pianist, Marilyn Nonken at NYU as the result of a grant from the American Composers Forum. Ellen has worked with choreographers, artists and poets to create new performance experiences that go beyond the concert hall. Recent projects include Remix Interactive, a work for live orchestra, playback and an interactive iOS light show in partnership with the Drexel University ExCITe Center and Mural in Motion, a soundscape and digital mural that was projected on to the side of the Fabric Workshop Building as part of collaboration with the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. She collaborated with choreographer and former Martha Graham dancer, Jeanne Ruddy, between 2007-2012. Her score for Lark was described by Merilyn Jackson for “The Philadelphia Inquirer” as “a sprightly, complex 21st-century score whose swirling arpeggios harmonized well with the choreography.”