Theatre
Please have a look at my most recent work below
All of Life's Little Problems
(53Two, 2025)
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Runner up of Group One of OffCut Festival 2025.
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What happens when you have a life changing incident that no one, not you, not your (mostly) grown up children, saw coming?
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Performed as part of OffCut Festival 2025 at 53Two.
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TEAM:
Writer - Steve Connolly
Director - Ellie Harrington
Cast - Rebecca-Clare Evans, Luke O'Hara, Ella Parkes, Stephen G. Titley
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Rotten
(Salford Arts Theatre, 2025)
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Rotten is a one-man (or one-twink) play rooted in pornographic tropes in gay culture. The play explores, and defies, the often performative nature that is unspokenly desired of those in the gay community and how this can become undeniably toxic and emotionally taxing.
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'Absolutely hilarious biting look into the world of gay culture' - audience member at Lived Experiences
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TEAM:
Writer & Performer - Henry Pwyrell
Director - Ellie Harrington
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Performed as part of the Lived Experiences new writing night at Salford Arts Theatre.
What's In That Closet?
(Hope Mill Theatre, 2025)
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In the late 1880s the locally famed Star Hall has fallen into disrepair. When local millworkers, Albert and Fred, stumble into the faded memory of the Hall, they find more than they bargained for. Curiosity stirs as they discover a closet belonging to famed performer and female impersonator, Ernest Parkinson.
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TEAM:
Writer - Ellie Harrington
Director - Stewart Campbell
Cast - James Sprague, John O'Neill
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Commissioned and produced as part of Qweer Shorts with Qweerdog Theatre.
Funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund as part of Hope 200, celebrating the Hope Mill Theatre's 200th Birthday.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
(BarPop, 2024)
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A story of love, chaos, and poppers.
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2024 marked ten years since the first gay marriage ceremonies were performed in the UK. To mark this moment, Antimatter Productions brought plenty of glitter to this queer re-telling of one of Shakespeare’s most chaotic marriage plays.
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Hermia loves Lysander. Everyone loves Hermia. Poor Helena.
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As Theseus and Hippolyta’s wedding day dawns, Hermia rebels against her father. Faced with his demand that if she doesn't marry Demetrius, she will face either death or life in a convent, she elopes with her partner Lysander. Hoping to find liberation away from straight society, she stumbles across The Midsummer, quickly followed by Helena and Demetrius who both have their own schemes for love. In the backroom, a troupe of performers prepare for the lip-sync of their lives. On this night of possibility, the feud between the bar’s owners, Oberon and Titania, unleashes chaos under Puck’s watchful eye and meddling hand.
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TEAM:
Writer - William Shakespeare
Director - Ellie Harrington
Assistant Director - Yanni Ng
Lighting Design/Sound Technician - Ned Reid
Sound Design - Matt WIlson
Costume & Set Design - Beth Barrett
Stage Manager - Esme Watts
Cast - Abbie Verity, Brooke Hadfield, Maggie Thorn, Eilidh Pollard, Jamie King, Leah Taylor, Joseph Vause, Alessandro Nieri, Nia Bowling, Adelaide Marshall, Claire Cole
A Taste of Honey
(Royal Exchange Theatre, 2024)
Observer Mondays Director
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Helen has done it again, another fly-by-night flit dragging Jo from one Salford flat to another, only this time she has out done herself giving her daughter panoramic views of the slaughterhouse. But Jo can feel her Mum’s restlessness, another man will appear and lure her away and Jo will be left to fend for herself, so when Jimmie offers to stay for Christmas Jo is swept up in his charm and the promise of escape – no matter how precarious that may be.
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Shelagh Delaney’s iconic play, directed by Emma Baggott, is a sharply observed portrait of working-class life in Salford in the late 1950s.
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As the Observer Mondays Director, I had the opportunity to observe Emma Baggott during the rehearsal process and tech week.
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You can read my blog about my time as the Observer Mondays Director here.
TEAM:
Writer - Shelagh Delaney
Director - Emma Baggott
Designer - Peter Butler
Lighting Designer - Simisola Majekodunmi
Sound Designer - George Dennis
Fight and Intimacy Director - Kaitlin Howard
Arranger/Orchestrator - Alexandra Faye Braithwaite
Movement Director - Sarita Piotrowski
Voice and Dialect Coach - Natalie Grady
Casting Director - Annelie Powell CDG
Casting Assistant - Alice Walters
Birkbeck Assistant Director - Sam Holland-Bunyan
Cast - Jill Halfpenny, David Moorst, Obadiah, Rowan Robinson, Andrew Sheridan, Nisha Smith
A Supergraphic Ultramodern Christmas Carol
(Hope Mill Theatre, 2024)
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A queer retelling of A Christmas Carol for the modern age, twenty-something, Chappell Roan bisexual.​
TEAM:
Writer - Ellie Harrington
Director - Sam Hey
Cast - Julia Rogers, Lara Rose Hancox, Leah Marks, Freya Ingram
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Produced and performed as part of Qweerdog Theatre's Festive Qweer Shorts 2024.
Just Kiss Her
(Salford Arts Theatre, 2024)
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A comedy about the end of a night out and the fear of making the first move, for the first time ever. Lou has to wrestle with her brain to pluck up the courage to kiss the girl she fancies.​
TEAM:
Writer - Ellie Harrington
Director - Adam Cachia
Cast - Amy Chung, Sophie Trueman
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Produced as part of Antimatter Productions’ Scratch Night.
The Wönderful Everyday
(TheSpace on Niddry Street, Edinburgh Fringe Festival & Queen Margaret Union, 2023)
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Welcome to everyone’s favourite flat-pack megacorporation’s new reality TV show! The premise is simple – people are profitable. Contestants live in the store for one year; their personal lives are broadcast to the nation. As they carry on their lives, their drama sells furniture, bringing in the cash. The couple who sells the most sofas win a house. How wonderful! Sam and Jay gamble their relationship in a bid to win the ultimate prize. As they battle cameras, customers and tiny pencils, will they win, or will they flat-pack their bags and leave empty-handed? And at what cost?
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Awards - Winner of STAG New Works Festival 2023.
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The play won full funding from Student Theatre at Glasgow for a nine-show run at the Edinburgh Fringe, achieving a five-star review and a final sell-out show.​
TEAM:
Writer - Ellie Harrington
Co-Directors - Ellie Harrington & Diana Kukharenko
Producer - Haneul Lee
Production Manager - Alexandra Ribeiro
Set & Costume Designer - Catherine Shonack
Lighting Technician - Attis Fielden
Sound Technician - Rebecca Matthews
Cast - Caoimhe O’Sullivan (original), Emma Gribbon, Laura Milton, Bailey
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Reviews:​
'a winning premise' (The Scotsman)​
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‘There are laugh out loud lines and there is high drama. This is a very impressive production from Glasgow’s Student Theatre with a strong script and excellent characterisation’ (One4Review)​
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***** (One4Review)
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‘This show has a wonderfully unique concept, which I really enjoyed - writer and co-director Ellie Harrington has done a great job at this fresh new story’ (Theatre Travels)
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‘It was clear the audience were having a great time during this show - I don’t think I’ve heard more vocal feedback at any other Fringe show this season’ (Theatre Travels)
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