Hannah's War was a Finalist for the National Jewish Book Award and has been acquired for film with Eliasberg adapting the novel for the screen and directing.
[2] She graduated magna cum laude from Wesleyan University (at the age of 20 in 1974) and earned a Master's degree in directing at Yale School of Drama (1981).
Her other television directing credits include multiple episodes of Bull; Nashville; The Magicians; Blue Bloods; NCIS:Los Angeles; Parenthood; Criminal Minds; 21 Jump Street, Dawson's Creek, Sisters (also a producer and writer), Early Edition and Party of Five, among many other series.
[citation needed] In early 1988, she was hired to direct the teen comedy How I Got into College, but was replaced only five days into filming by Savage Steve Holland.
She has directed such plays as Spring Awakening, Bertolt Brecht's Saint Joan of the Stockyards, Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler, The Threepenny Opera, the American premiere of Howard Brenton's Sore Throats and The Importance of Being Earnest.
After receiving her MFA in Fiction in 1996, Eliasberg was hired to write, produce, and direct the NBC series, Sisters, starring Sela Ward, Swoosie Kurtz, Patricia Kalember; George Clooney; Ashley Judd and Paul Rudd.
She has written screenplays, all with strong female leads, and often about women who have been erased from history, for Warner Brothers, Universal, Fox and Sony.