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Eleanor Dodson

Director

I am a freelance director currently working under Robin Norton-Hale at OperaUpClose.

I spent two years (2015 -2017) living and working in Europe in Paris, Prague and Gothenburg. In 2018 I finished my Master's Degree in Arts, Creativity and Education at the University of Cambridge.

I initially trained as an actor under Jack Price in the Sanford Meisner technique.

Credits

STAFF DIRECTOR, Peace at Last, the egg theatre Bath, Stratford Circus, Theatr Clwyd, Hawth Theatre, Redbridge Drama Centre, Snape Maltings, Rhodes Arts Complex, The Swan Worcester, 5 weeks, 2019

STAFF DIRECTOR, Maria Stuarda, The Charterhouse London, Blackfriars Priory, Exeter Guildhall, Poltimore House, 7 nights, 2019

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Broken Biscuits, Gothenburg English Studio Theatre, 1 month, 2017

DIRECTOR, Hamlet, Divadlo Kolowrat Prague, 3 nights, 2016

DIRECTOR, Constellations, Théâtre Municipal de Fontainebleau, 1 night, 2016

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Nine O'Clock Slot, The Red Gallery London, 2014

STAFF DIRECTOR, La Traviata, Theatre Royal Winchester, G-Live, Theatre Royal Margate, Tobacco Factory Theatre Bristol, Cotswold Playhouse, North Wall Oxford, Forum Theatre Malvern, Belgrade Coventry, 8 nights, 2014

DIRECTOR, The Pink Bedroom, theSpace on the Mile Edinburgh, 1 month, 2013

Training

Young Vic Directors Program
JMK Trust Regional Programme
King's Head Theatre Trainee Director Scheme
Act Bristol Sanford Meisner Short Course

Location

London

Experience

2-5 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Opera
  • Theatre / Live perfomance

What I do

  • Devising
  • Dramaturgy
  • Languages
  • Movement Direction
  • Music - Can Read
  • Physical Theatre / Mime
  • Site Responsive/Immersive
  • Teaching / Coaching
  • Verbatim theatre
  • Working with young people

Additional Languages

Norwegian and French.