Elvira is an experienced arts educator. In the last 25 years she has worked in a range of schools and with youth communities in Singapore, Rotterdam, Delft and The Hague. She has directed theatre productions, developed theatre curriculum and trained both students and teachers in local and international communities. She has been teaching Performance and Practice at SOTA, and has also been an adjudicator for the Singapore Youth Festival, and is currently the President of the Singapore Drama Educators Association.

While she was in Holland for twelve years, Elvira directed work new work for Cosmic Theater [Amsterdam] DNA [Delft] and Hofplein Youth Theater [Rotterdam]. She has also performed in several productions for Keizer en van der Mast (Delft). Before 1997, Elvira worked with a number of local theatre companies directing new and devised work and performed for The Necessary Stage, Theatre Works, Teater Kami and SRT. Most recently, Elvira wrote and directed Cabut for Ekamatra's Projekt Suitcase 2016.