Ellie Taylor

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Ellie Taylor

Assistant Director

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

Ellie 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);  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); Macbeth and The Comedy of Errors (Grosvenor Park Theatre).

Ellie is also a playwright, and was a 2016 finalist for the Kenneth Branagh Award.

Ellie studied Text and Performance at RADA / Birkbeck and has a History and Politics degree from The University of York.