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, 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

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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