EDUCATION
Penumbra Foundation
2019 Tintype Photography
New York University Tisch School of the Arts
2012 MFA Dramatic Writing in Film
FILM/PHOTOGRAPHY WORK
2023 Filmmaker for Kresge Arts in Detroit (director, editor, colorist)
2023 Serial Monogamous (producer, writer, director, editor)
2022 Filmmaker for Kresge Arts in Detroit (director, editor, colorist)
2022 Take Flight (creator, producer, director, editor, colorist)
2021 Filmmaker for Kresge Arts in Detroit
2021 DMC Hospital Patient Story and Commercial segments (director)
2019 Shield (writer and director)
2018 VICE (photographer)
2017 Brooklyn Museum (photographer)
2017 Museum of Modern Art (photographer)
2016 Female Protagonist (director and photographer)
THEATRE WORK
2022 OBIE Award-winning 48 Hours in Detroit Festival (playwright)
2020 “baker’s dozen” for Concord Theatrical’s 45th Annual Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Play Festival (playwright)
2015 OBIE Award-winning 48 Hours in Harlem Festival (playwright)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Capitalize the B in Black, Baber Gallery, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, MI
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 “TAKE FLIGHT”, a part of Revolutionary Times exhibition, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
2023 Gilda Snowden Memorial Exhibition, The Scarab Club, Detroit, MI
2023 RESONANCE | REVERENCE, Galerie Camille, Detroit, MI
2023 Get Together, Reyes | Finn Gallery, Detroit, MI
2022 Womxnhouse Detroit, Detroit, MI
2022 ALLIUM, Norwest Gallery, Detroit, MI
2017 Photography as Social Conscience, Lore Degenstein Gallery/Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA
2016 Female Protagonist series (work selected by Mickalene Thomas), Baxter St. The Camera Club NY, New York, NY
2016 Show #35 group exhibition, Field Projects Gallery
2015 Power, Protest & Resistance, Skylight Gallery (Rush Philanthropic Arts), New York, NY
2015 Soho Photo Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Los Angeles Center of Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa, FL
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES/FELLOWSHIPS
2023 Cranbrook Academy of Art Artist-in-Residence
2023 Nantucket Film Festival + Almanack Screenwriter Sessions
2023 CultureSource + Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Flourish Fund Grant Recipient
2022 2022 Sesame Street Workshop Writer’s Room Fellow
2022 2022 Womxnhouse Detroit Resident
2021 Idlewild International Film Festival, Detroit, MI, Best Short Narrative
2019 Reel Sisters Film Festival, Dwyer Cultural Center, New York, NY, Honorable Mention
2019 New Jersey International Film Festival, Rutgers University, Honorable Mention
2019 Festival on the Hill HBCU Film Festival, "Black Girl Magic", Prairie View A&M University, Best Screenplay
2019 Inaugural grant recipient, MOME NYFA “Made in NY” Women’s Fund in Film
2016 WAA/Weeksville Summer Arts Residency Fellow
2015 Playwright for The Liberation Theatre Black Playwrights Group
2014 Playwright for The Liberation Theatre Black Playwrights Group
SCREENWRITING RECOGNITION
2023 Finalist (top 3), Nantucket Film Festival Screenplay Competition
2022 Semi-finalist, Almanack Screenwriters Colony
2019 Semi-finalist, Atlanta Film Festival Screenwriting Competition
2019 Quarter-finalist, Academy Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting
2019 2nd round, Sundance Development Fast Track
2019 Finalist, HBOAccess Writing Fellowship
2019 Semi-Finalist, Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition
2019 Quarterfinalist, Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition
2019 Quarterfinalist, 6th Annual ScreenCraft Screenwriting Fellowship
2019 2nd Round, Spring ScreenCraft Film Fund
2011 Finalist, Fusion Film Festival (“Full length feature” and “Short form” screenplay categories)
ARTIST TALKS/LECTURES/PODCASTS
2024 Dope Women in Media: Honoring the Women in Film in Metro Detroit, Ann Arbor Art Center | Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
2024 Truth In This Art Podcast - Juanita Anderson + Danielle Eliska: Filmmaking in Detroit’s Landscape, Podcast, USA
2023 Moderator, THE PRELUDE, NOVA24 Photo + Film Festival, The Congregation Detroit, Detroit, MI
2023 Photography Lunchtime Lecture Series, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2023 Toyota Lecture Series Art and Design Symposium, GM Auditorium | College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
2022 In Conversation with Mario Moore, Midnight and Canaan exhibition, David Klein Gallery, Detroit, MI
2022 Moderator, “Pray for Us” Artist Talk, Norwest Gallery, Detroit, MI
2022 In Conversation with Zachary Cunningham and Andrew Cullum, Noir Cinema Film Festival, Detroit, MI
2022 In Conversation with Ricky Weaver, Detroit Womxnhouse, Detroit, MI
2019 In Conversation with Marshalle Montgomery-Favors, Detroit Historical Museum, Detroit, MI
2019 Artist Talk at She Bad: Women in Film screening, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
2019 Artist Talk at New Jersey International Film Festival, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
2019 Artist Talk at Reel Sisters Film Festival, Dwyer Cultural Center, New York, NY
2019 Artist Talk at the Detroit Women of Color International Film Festival, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American, Detroit, MI
PHOTOGRAPHY PUBLICATIONS/REVIEWS
2016 Photographer’s Forum Collection book, The Best of Photography 2016
2016 interview, Osmancan Yerebakan for Baxter St. Blog
2016 review in The New Yorker, written by Vince Aletti
2016 Finalist, Photographer’s Forum Magazine
2015 Finalist, Photographer’s Forum Magazine
2015 Photographer’s Forum Collection book, The Best of Photography 2015
PRESS COVERAGE
PBS News Hour: REGENERATION: BLACK CINEMA exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts
Reyes | Finn exhibit brings together more than 150 Detroit artists
BABES WHO HUSTLE feature Interview with Writer + Director Danielle Eliska
SHIELD Comes to Indie Fuxion and Slays by Nicole Franklin
Princeton resident to debut film at New Jersey International Film Festival
New Jersey Stage feature Article + Review: "Shield: Superheroes Do Exist" by Gary Wien
BLAC Magazine: DWCIFF at Charles Wright Museum of African American History by Paris Giles
Interview with Danielle Eliska Lyle on EBTV with Albert Nigrin, NJIFF
Independent Magazine - Women in Film Portraits: Danielle Eliska Lyle
The Reel Women 7-Day Feature of Writer + Director Danielle Eliska