Eleanor Holdridge**
DIRECTOR
Off-Broadway productions include world premieres of Selma ’65 (LaMaMa), Steve & Idi (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre), and Cycling Past The Matterhorn (Clurman Theatre). Regional credits include World Premieres of David Grimm’s adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac, Meg Miroshnik’s FiCKLE: A Fancy French Farce, Lauren Gunderson’s The Revolutionists (Cincinnati Playhouse), Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Roundhouse Theatre) and I and You (Olney and Geva Theaters); Caleen Sinnette Jennings’ Queens Girl in the World (Theatre J) and Darius & Twig (Kennedy Center TYA), and Zorro (Constellaton Stage), which she co-wrote. She has directed twenty-four of Shakespeare’s plays, some of them multiple times. Eleanor holds an MFA from Yale and is Head of Directing and Producer at CUA’s Department of Drama. Upcoming projects include The Crucible at Olney Theatre Center, Gunderson’s Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley at Cincinnati Playhouse, and Shakespeare’s Richard II at Orlando Shakespeare
