elinor lower.


director / dramaturg / writer 

︎ work
︎ cv
︎ blog

︎ contact
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selected work


as director


> dawnbreaker — exeter phoenix / south west short film commission — 2025 [forthcoming]
> orchestra, charlie josephine — the egg theatre / bath theatre academy – 2025
> DEAD WIFE HUG ratbird productions, micro short — 2025
> i, joan, charlie josephine — arts university bournemouth — 2024
> green man, tom mackean — R&D, the egg theatre — 2024
> beautiful thing, jonathan harvey — bristol school of acting — 2024
> haunting ashton court — haunting the archives / ashton court arts mansion — 2023
> young ferment — bristol old vic — 2022
> dance/hyena/skeleton bath theatre academy — 2022

as dramaturg


> SINK, clodagh chapman — R&D with Just Something Different — 2025 [associate dramaturg]
> phone piece, calum perrin — R&D with paraorchestra — 2025
> cripship, joseph wilk — more than AI sandbox / watershed / myworld — 2024 *
> ancestry, samantha lindo — MOBO Help Musicians Fund — 2023
> anansi’s big big adventure, edson burton — bristol old vic — 2022
> opal fruits, holly beasley-garrigan — bristol old vic / pleasance courtyard — 2022
> rechnitz, elfriede jelenik — Headlong Origins R&D with Maisie Newman — 2021
> on ēglond, on oþerre, rowan evans — FEN R&D / UCL Bloomsbury Theatre — 2020-1

*crip is a term that the makers of cripship, along with some of the disabled community, have reclaimed through disability scholarship, culture and activism. You can read about crip reclamation here.

as writer / creator


> we meet in the woods — winter residency R&D — 2024
> or perhaps — #WhoseFuture citywide billboard campaign, Rising Arts Agency — 2021
> [breathe] [wave] — BBC Arts New Creatives — 2019

as producer


> sudden connections: digital commission series — bristol old vic — 2021
> young sixsix library of Black writing — bristol old vic — 2020-

as facilitator


> bristol old vic adult company (2025)
> tender healthy relationships (2024-)
> haunting the archives (2022-)
> young company city (2017-)

as assistant director


> hamlet, dir. John Haidar — bristol old vic — 2022
> young ferment  — bristol old vic — 2019




publications


> haunting ashton court: a creative handbook for collective history making — 2023
> reach out {and the path diverges} — Art Licks Magazine Issue 27 — 2022



other work


script reading


the egg, theatre royal bath
bristol old vic literary department
fullrogue

teaching 


bristol school of acting — Theatremaking BA 
bath theatre academy — UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma in Performing and Production Arts 

facilitation


National Theatre Connections, Bristol Old Vic, Platform, Hauser + Wirth, Theatre Royal Bath, Tobacco Factory Theatres, Bath Spa University, Rising Arts Agency, Pervasive Media Studio / Watershed



residencies


> container mag / B-Form spatial audio residency — 2025
> winter residency — pervasive media studio, watershed cinema — 2024
> international schillertage — nationaltheater mannheim, germany — 2023



awards


> best 48-hour film — two short nights film festival — 2025 [for DEAD WIFE HUG]
> top 10% bbc writers open call — 2025
> longlisted for slick films first-time filmmaker fund — 2024
> longlisted for channel 4 tv drama writers — 2024



education and training


education


BA English Literature (First Class Hons), University of Bristol

professional development 


the script factory — screenplay structure for shorts — 2024
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