WOMEN OF ACHIEVEMENT
ELISABETH LEWIS CORLEY POET AND OWNER, HARLAND’S CREEK PRODUCTIONS
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lisabeth Lewis Corley is a modern
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Renaissance woman. She’s a poet, playwright, actor, director, producer, screenwriter, editor and lecturer. Her father, Col. Robert Joseph Corley, was in the Army, so Elizabeth was born in Landstuhl, West Germany. She lived in Greece until she was 9 when the family – including her mother, Eleanor “Kit” Beard Lewis Corley, and her two siblings – relocated to Chatham County so her father could work on his master’s degree at UNC in the 1970s. He fell in love with the 40 acres he found along Highway 64 and Harland’s Creek. “I ended up going to school at UNC and then when I later moved to New York, I would come back down to my parents’ little log cabin in the woods to write,” Elisabeth says. “It was a kind of refuge during that time.” Twenty years and many
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