Eleanor Holdridge (Director) has directed The Promise (Shakespeare and Company); Julius Caesar (Milwaukee Shakespeare); Two Gentlemen of Verona (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); As You Like It, Twelfth Night and The Tempest (Shakespeare & Company); Taming of the Shrew and The Tempest (Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival); Henry V (Shakespeare on the Sound); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Festival Saint Louis); The Imaginary Invalid (Pearl Theater Company, NY); Lettice & Lovage (Shakespeare & Company); Art (Triad Stage) and Betrayal (Portland Stage). In the past she has served as Associate Artist at Shakespeare & Company, Artistic Director of the Red Heel Theatre Company, Artistic Director of the Yale Cabaret, Resident Assistant Director for the Shakespeare Theatre and Resident Director at New Dramatists. She is a Usual Suspect at NYTW and has taught and directed students at The Yale School of Drama, NYU’s graduate program, Juilliard and The Shakespeare Theatre Academy for Classical Acting. She holds an MFA from Yale School of Drama. Later this year Eleanor will direct The Crucible at Perseverance Theater and Mary Stuart at The Pearl Theatre.
