Ellie Westbrook
 

Stage actor and multidisciplinary performer working across music, text, clown and physical theatre.

 
 

selected acting credits

Beyond the Bayeux — Jester — written by Ellie Westbrook & Vanessa Farinha, dir. Cathy Brady — Hastings Castle — 2026

Murder Games: A Double Bill — Jenny / It — The Opera Makers, dir. Jonny Danciger — Grimeborn, Arcola Theatre — 2026

Bitter Visions: By Order of Hildegard — The Devil — Ololyga, dir. Florence Carruthers Andrews — Grimeborn, Arcola Theatre — 2026

Next of Kin R&D — Actor / Singer — Too Much Theatre, dir. Hannah Calascione — Old Diorama Arts Centre — 2025

Birthday Day — Lead / co-deviser — Wassail Theatre — 2022–24

The Elixir of Love — Gianetta — White Rock Theatre — 2024

Frankenstein: A Modern Prometheus Story — The Monster — John Ramster / Jonathan Tillbrook — Blackheath Halls — 2023

her bed // dream wake piece — Co-deviser / performer — Rough for Opera / Second Movement — Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells — 2023

Red Forest — Ensemble / deviser / musician — Belarus Free Theatre — Young Vic + international touring — 2014–15

Price of Money — Ensemble / deviser / musician — Belarus Free Theatre — The Albany — 2014

Noye’s Fludde — God — Kneehigh / Charles Hazlewood — 2014

Here We Are — Performer — Judith Malina / The Living Theatre — New York — 2013

Devised / Collaborative performance

Baroque But Not / FOLLIA — Co-deviser / performer — Vache Baroque × Contemporary Vocal Sünds — 2026

At a Safe Distance — Performer / collaborator — with Natacha Diels & James Oldham — UK/Ireland tour — 2026

Provocation on Magic — Collaborator / performer — with Tullis Rennie — Eavesdropping Festival, London — 2026

Titus Andronicus — Performer / director / co-deviser — TUFT — multidisciplinary Shakespeare adaptation — 2024–26

Syrup Tracing; or, on the significance of rising and/or falling — Co-deviser / performer — Waste Paper Opera Company — Festival of Noise, Birmingham — 2020

Big Berg — Creator / performer — The Yard, Brighton Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe & UK venues — 2018–20

A Time of Listening R&D — Performer / collaborator — Hanbury & Groves — Snape Maltings, Festival of New — 2018

Lilith R&D — Musical Deviser — Damsel Productions — 2019

Experimental Voice / Music Highlights

Reveries in Fracture — Collaborator / performer — with Amir Konjani — Kings Place, London

Contemporary Vocal Sünds — Co-creator / performer — with Oskar McCarthy — Hastings & London

Mona Lisa — Studio recording — Tim Parkinson & James Oldham / Nonclassical

Star Quality: Speculations for Guitar and Voice — Performer / collaborator — with Keir Cooper — Discus Music — 2024

Eidolon — Improvised vocals — Mat Collishaw — Faith Museum, Bishop Auckland

Flock — Bird voice-over — Hollow Ponds Games

Pebble — Vocalist / collaborator — with Anna Dennis, Tara Franks, Bev Lee Harling & Lucie Treacher

Young Artist Singer — Waterperry Opera Festival

skills

Classically trained soprano • Clown / mask • Physical theatre • Devising • Improvisation • Accordion • Saxophone • Event Production • Voice-over • Sound design

training

Advanced Theatre Devising Practices
Arthaus.Berlin, formerly LISPA — 2018

Postgraduate Diploma in Vocal Studies
Trinity Laban Conservatoire — 2023
Winner, Elisabeth Schumann Lieder Duo Prize

Music & Drama BA
University of Manchester — 2012

 

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