Eleanor Taylor

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Eleanor Taylor

Director

For the New Vic: A Play For The Living In A Time Of Extinction (with Headlong Theatre); Cabinet of Curiosities.

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

Directing credits include: On The Brink (Vienna English Theatre); Plastic Band (Gala Durham); Drowning: The Algo Movement (Making Space Arts / Leicester Curve Inside/Out Festival / The Ugly Duck); Telo, Tolerable But Pungent and Pieces of Eight (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).

Associate Director credits include: The Worst Witch (Royal & Derngate / Kenny Wax / Nimax); Potted Potter (James Seabright / European Tour); The Crown: Live (James Seabright / US Tour); All My Sons (Lyric Theatre, Hong Kong).

 

Assistant Director credits include: Wendy and Peter Pan (Leeds Playhouse); All My Sons, The Wars of the Roses (Rose Theatre Kingston); Do We Do The Right Thing? (New Diorama and UK / Germany Tour); Macbeth, The Comedy of Errors (Grosvenor Park Theatre).

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

Eleanor is also the winner of the 2023 BAFTA Rocliffe Children and YA Media Competition &

Initiative.

Eleanor studied Text and Performance at RADA / Birkbeck and has a History and Politics degree

from The University of York.