elinor lower.


director + writer
for theatre and film


︎ CV

︎ Contact
︎  Bluesky
︎ Instagram

elinor lower.


director + writer
for theatre and film


︎ CV

︎ Contact
︎  Bluesky
︎ Instagram

SELECTED CREDITS


THEATRE: DIRECTING 


> Grimm Tales — Arts University Bournemouth — 2026 [forthcoming]
> The Odyssey — The Egg Theatre — 2026 [forthcoming]
> The Fall / Love and Money — Bristol School of Acting — 2026
> Orchestra The Egg Theatre / Bath Theatre Academy — 2025
> I, Joan   Arts University Bournemouth — 2024
> Green Man —  R&D, The Egg Theatre — 2024
> Beautiful Thing — Bristol School of Acting — 2023
> Haunting Ashton Court — co. dir. with Jack Young — Haunting the Archives / Ashton Court Arts Mansion — 2023
> Young Ferment — Bristol Old Vic — 2022
> Dance/Hyena/Skeleton — Bath Theatre Academy — 2022
> Hamlet — dir. John Haidar — Bristol Old Vic — 2022 [as assistant director]

SHORT FILM: DIRECTING


> dawnbreaker — Exeter Phoenix South West Short Film Commission — 2026
> DEAD WIFE HUG — ratbird productions, Micro Short — 2025
winner, Best 48-Hour Film, Two Short Nights Film Festival 

THEATRE: DRAMATURGY


> A FAIRY STORY ANIMAL FARM — dir. Maisie Newman — Bristol School of Acting — 2026
> SINK by Clodagh Chapman — R&D with Just Something Different — 2025 [associate dramaturg]
> Phone Piece by Calum Perrin — R&D with Paraorchestra — 2025
> Cripship by Joseph Wilk — ‘More than AI’ Sandbox / Watershed / MyWorld — 2024 *
> Ancestry by Samantha Lindo — MOBO Help Musicians Fund — 2023
> Anansi’s Big Big Adventure by Edson Burton — Bristol Old Vic — 2022
> Opal Fruits by Holly Beasley-Garrigan — Bristol Old Vic / Pleasance Courtyard — 2022
> Rechnitz dir. Maisie Newman — Headlong Origins R&D — 2021
> On Ēglond, On Oþerre — dir. Maisie Newman — 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 — Watershed Winter Residency R&D — 2024
> [breathe] [wave] — BBC Arts New Creatives — 2019



PUBLICATIONS 


> Haunting Ashton Court: A Creative Handbook For Collective History-Making — 2023 as co-writer/editor
> reach out {and the path diverges} — Art Licks Magazine Issue 27 — 2022
> or perhaps — #WhoseFuture citywide billboard campaign, Rising Arts Agency — 2021

AS PRODUCER


> Sudden Connections: Digital Commission Series — Bristol Old Vic — 2021
> Young Sixsix Library of Black Writing — Bristol Old Vic — ongoing since 2020



OTHER WORK


SCRIPT READING 

The Egg Theatre / Theatre Royal Bath
Bristol Old Vic Literary Department
FullRogue

TEACHING

Bristol School of Acting — Theatremaking BA
Bristol School of Acting — Stage and Screen BA
Bristol School of Acting — UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma in Acting
Bath Theatre Academy — UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma in Performing and Production Arts 

FACILITATION

National Theatre Connections, Bristol Old Vic, Tender, 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 — 2025-6
> Winter Residency — Pervasive Media Studio, Watershed Cinema — 2024
> International Schillertage Festivalakademie — 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 & TRAINING 


PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

BFI NETWORK, FilmHub South West — New Voices — 2025
Film London – Directors’ Lab – 2024
The Script Factory — Screenplay Structure For Shorts Lab — 2024

EDUCATION

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

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