Eleanor Clare Taylor

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Eleanor Clare Taylor

Assistant Director

For the New Vic Theatre: Treasure Island, Around The World In 80 Days (2017 co-production with Kenny Wax Family Entertainment, Simon Friend and Royal Exchange Theatre).

Eleanor Clare is currently the resident Assistant Director for the New Vic Theatre.

Previous directing credits include: Drowning: the Algo Movement (Making Space Arts/Leicester Curve Inside Out Festival/the Ugly Duck); Telo, Tolerable but Pungent and Pieces of Eight (all for the RADA Festival); Much Ado About Nothing (Northern Opera Group); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (St Leonards Festival/Hikapee Circus Company) and Circa (Theater de Meervaart, Amsterdam).

As Associate Director: All My Sons (Lyric Theatre, Hong Kong).

As Assistant Director: All My Sons and The Wars of the Roses (Rose Theatre, Kingston); Do We Do the Right Thing? (New Diorama and UK/Germany tour) and Macbeth and The Comedy of Errors (Grosvenor Park Theatre).

Eleanor Clare is also a playwright and was a 2016 finalist for the Kenneth Branagh Award.

Eleanor Clare studied text and performance at RADA/Birkbeck and has a BA in History and Politics from the University of York