Elaine’s trilogy U.S. at War: Three Plays includes Graveyard of Empires, A Work of Art, and the upcoming Rain of Ruin. Graveyard of Empires, the first installment of the U.S. at War, won the American Blues Theater’s Blue Ink! Playwriting Award and received its World Premiere at 16th Street Theater under the direction of Kevin Christopher Fox. Chicago Dramatists in association with the Goodman Theatre, produced the World Premiere of A Work of Art under the direction of Goodman’s Associate Artist, Henry Godinez. The play was developed as part of the Goodman Theatre’s Playwrights Unit led by dramaturg Tanya Palmer. Modern Slave received a staged-reading at Victory Gardens Theater, directed by Erica Weiss.