Who is she?

Cancer sun. IUD super fan. Niche internet celebrity. Jersey Shore enthusiast. Glee groupie. The fifth (or so) coolest person to graduate from a small high school in New Jersey. Eli Rallo is a 26 year old theatre kid who just wants to be your friend (if you’re okay with going to bed at 9:30 pm and hanging out at home). She wants to share her words and incite conversation. She wants to hear from you. She wants you to trade ideas like friendship bracelets. She wants to build community. She wants you to feel the glow of her words through the warmth of the screen. She wants you to know it’s okay to feel like you’re too much, and she wants you to believe there’s no such thing. You just are. Enough, worthy, brilliant, bitchy, cool, pretty.

She also has a degree in playwriting and creative writing and a masters in journalism. She likes books, chipotle, spring, salty white wine and musical theatre. She writes things she hopes you will read. Her first book I Didn’t Know I Needed This was a Publisher’s Weekly Bestseller and sold over 25,000 copies to date. Her second book, Does Anyone Else Feel This Way? is forthcoming with Harper Collins in October of 2025. When she is not writing The Drama Club, she is busy working on that.

What is The Drama Club?

Surprisingly, not a newsletter about theatre or theatre kids. The Drama Club is a feeling (a vibe if you will). The Drama Club is a liminal space. The Drama Club is a runway toward your dreams. A place for us to explore our innermost thoughts and feelings and fears. A room full of run on sentences and loud voices.

But yeah, also a newsletter. Once a month drops which will include a slew of updates, an essay about whatever comes to mind, plus the occasional lovely advice segment which you can submit to here.

Why should you subscribe?

Reading is very good for you. Nothing I say is true for everyone but everything I say may be true for someone. If you love me, if you hate me, if you wish I’d join YouTube—I’m much better with words than I am with video (shocking, from the local TikToker). Plus I’m only requiring you to read once a month. AND you’ll have exclusive access to preorders, tours, merch and more.

Love you… say it back.

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