Elizabeth Freestone

 

Directing credits include:

 

TAGORE'S WOMEN: ENDLESS LIGHT (Kali Theatre at The Vault, Southwark Playhouse); BORDER LIES/ REPUTATION (Rehearsed readings for Kali Theatre);THE DUCHESS OF MALFI/ VOLPONE and THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL/ DR FAUSTUS (Greenwich Theatre); THE TRAGEDY OF THOMAS HOBBES (Royal Shakespeare Company at Wilton’s Music Hall); HERE LIES MARY SPINDLER (RSC @ Latitude Festival); SOFTCOPS (rehearsed reading RSC); A GLORIOUSLY MUCKY BUSINESS (LAMDA); THE RAPE OF LUCRECE (development project for the RSC); ROMEO AND JULIET (Globe Theatre UK and European tour); FRANGIPANI HILL and BHUS (rehearsed readings for Kali Theatre); EVERYWORD FESTIVAL (Liverpool Everyman); RAGTIME (Urdang Academy); ROMANY (Long project, LAMDA); THE WATER HARVEST (Theatre 503); SKELLIG (tour); THE TRAVELS OF THREE ENGLISH BROTHERS (British Museum); NIGHT MUST FALL, TOP GIRLS and THREE SISTERS (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama); SIX CHARACTERS LOOKING FOR AN AUTHOR (Central School); LOCK THE GATES (Lyric Hammersmith); LEFT ON CHURCH STREET (Bridewell) and THE COMEDY OF ERRORS (RSC).  She was Associate Director on THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE at the National Theatre and was Staff Director on MARKET BOY (National Theatre) and SPEAKING LIKE MAGPIES, A NEW WAY TO PLEASE YOU and BELIEVE WHAT YOU WILL (RSC).

Elizabeth was literary associate at Soho Theatre and has worked as an assistant director at the Royal Court and Hampstead, including several rehearsed readings of new plays. She worked with the Open University, directing a reading of THE DUCHESS OF MALFI for their Reading and Understanding Literature course. She trained at Rose Bruford College and at the National Theatre Studio.  

 

 

 

                                                                             


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