Elena Gill

B.A. Linguistics, B.A. Public Policy

Projects

Theater

  • The Play That Goes Wrong (2024, Sound Designer)
  • Falsettos (2024, Music Director / Conductor)
  • Be More Chill (2023, Music Director / Keyboard 1)
  • The One For Me (2022, Composer / Music Director)
  • Yivdak (2022, Arranger / Music Director / Keyboard)
  • Trail To Oregon (2022, Rehearsal Pianist)
  • Love’s Labour’s Lost (2021, Asst. Sound Designer)
  • Rent (2020, Keyboard 1)
  • Chicago (2019, Piano 1)
  • Sister Act (2018, Keyboard 1)

Recent Posts

  • B.A. Thesis 2024

    Below is the abstract for my B.A. thesis examining mental health clinicians’ knowledge of treating deaf patients. The full thesis is also linked below. Around 1.9% of the U.S. population is deaf, making for over 6 million deaf people in the U.S. Previous research has shown that deaf adults are consistently given inadequate mental healthcare,…

  • I Can Hear the (Warning) Bells

    As a project for my Knowledge and Politics class, I wrote a parody of “I Can Hear the Bells” from Hairspray, incorporating ideas from the class on how to determine whether experts are trustworthy or not. Below is the PDF of the lead sheet for the song, and below that is a PDF of the…

  • YouTube’s Copyright Policies:Going Above and Below the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)

    This is a case study into the complicated implementation of the DMCA on YouTube–what went right, what went wrong, and what can be changed for the better. The PDF is available below. The text of the paper is also available further down this page. Additionally, below is a “poster” used at a semi-symposium to summarize…

  • The One For Me

    The One For Me is a short musical film parody of typical rom-coms. The leads believe that if they follow the patterns they see in the movies, their love life will work out. Despite their friends in a healthy relationship warning them about the work good relationships take, they seem set in their ways. The…

  • The Morphology-Syntax Interface in American Sign Language

    The paper can be found below or you can download the PDF using the button below. 1 Introduction Sign language morphology introduces a new hurdle for theories of morphosyntax to beat: the ability of sign languages to have a large number of simultaneous processes of morphology in addition to the sequential morphology in spoken languages…

  • An Analysis of /h/ Allophony in Hungarian

    By Elena Gill, Emma Reilly, and Danica Schulz Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology Final Project 2021 1 Introduction This paper focuses on the Hungarian language, specifically analyzing phonemic trends of the language and alternations regarding the /h/ phoneme using recordings from a native speaker. We analyzed voice recordings sent by our speaker using the PRAAT…

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