Elena Rigoni

Theatre Director Theatre Producer Movement Director Script Writer Assistant Stage Manager

I am an enthusiastic emerging Italian theatre director and producer. My pronouns are she/her. I am an alumni of the National Theatre's How to Be a Producer Course as well as being bart of CambioScena, an emerging Italian theatre collective.

I am passionate about access and inclusion. I love challenging myself and I am interested in new writing that display and question society's beliefs and issues.

Credits

Director, To My Mother (Scratch Night), The Pleasance
Theatre (London), 2024

Director, Sanctuary (Rehearsed Reading), Seven Dials Playhouse (London), 2024

Director, Street Contempt (Scratch Night), The Bread & Roses Theatre (London), 2024

Assistant Director, Little Fiend (workshop), Amazing Grace (London), 2023

Director Observer, Rigoletto, Opera Holland Park (London), 2023

Director/Writer/Performer, The Journey, Covent Garden Drama Studio (Cambridge), 2022

Director/Writer/Performer, It's Okay Not To Know, Ruskin Gallery (Cambridge), 2022

Director/Writer/Performer, p + c + 11 + f = Musical Formula, Mumford Theatre (Cambridge), 2022

Performer, 9 to 5: The Musical, Mumford Theatre (Cambridge), 2022

Performer, Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens, Mumford Theatre (Cambridge), 2021

Training

BA (Hons) Performing Arts, Anglia Ruskin University (1st) 2019 - 2022

Marketing Internship (Opera Holland Park, 2024)

How to Be a Producer Course (National Theatre, 2024)

Production Internship (Opera Holland Park, 2024)

Young Producers Course (Hackney Empire, 2023/2024)

Writers’ Room Course (Hackney Empire, 2022)

Stage Combat certificate (unarmed)

Part of the Management Team of the National Student Drama Festival 2022

"Directing vs Assistant Directing" workshop at NSDF 2022

"Workshopping a show with Barrel Organ" workshop at NSDF 2022

"What is R&D and how to make it work" workshop at NSDF2022

"Creating a character from very little" workshop at NSDF2022

Location

London

Experience

1-2 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Opera
  • Theatre / Live perfomance

What I do

  • Choreography
  • Devising
  • Directing
  • Dramaturgy
  • Editing
  • Languages
  • Movement Direction
  • Music - Can Read
  • Outdoor performance
  • Performance Art
  • Performing
  • Producing
  • Street Theatre
  • Theatre making
  • Working with young people
  • Workshopping & Development
  • Writing

Additional Languages

Italian (native language), Spanish (B2 certificate, fluent), German (B1 certificate)

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