Eleanor Taylor

Region: Yorkshire

About / Bio

I am a UK based writer / director. In 2021, I was nominated for the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Director and, in 2023, I won the BAFTA Rocliffe for Family, Children and YA Media with my short screenplay ‘The Silent Songbird: A Musical’. I am currently developing several new screen projects for pre-school / younger audiences.

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Gina Rowland – gina@granthamhazeldine.com

Genres

Animation

Books

Childrens writing

Comedy

Film

Online writing

Radio

Television

Theatre

Writing hours

TV writing hours: 1

Audio writing hours: 6

Writer's credits

Screenwriter / Director – The Lightmill (short film) – 2025
Screenwriter (3 Episodes) – TBA – Zodiak / Sky Family, 2025
Screenwriter – Mad Alice – shortlisted for the Slick Films Fund 2024
Playwright – Jameson & Son – I am currently developing my script into a full length play, supported by a Michael Grandage Bursary, 2024.
Audio Writer – The Great Retreat – LOOP initiative 2023 (currently commissioned for the pilot script for a 6 part audio drama) – Screen Yorkshire / Free Turn, 2023.
Screenwriter – The Silent Songbird: A Musical – WINNER – 2023 BAFTA Rocliffe Children and YA Media Competition & Initiative, 2023
Playwright – Love Letters From A Dictator – The Alpine Fellowship Award 2022 – (Honourable Mention) – https://alpinefellowship.com/theatre-prize.
Librettist – ‘Lust’ for Beauty and the Seven Deadly Sins – The Opera Story, Spring 2022.
Screenwriter – Milk & Water (Feature) – Quarter-Finalist at Big Break, 2021
Screenwriter – Fawkes (TV series) – shortlisted for the BBC TV Drama Writers Academy 2021
Playwright – rowing boat – shortlisted with the BBC Drama Writers Room, 2021.
Playwright – Welcome to the Village – WINNER of the Playwriting Category at the GreenStories Writing Competition, supported by the University of Southampton – Jan 2020, (http://www.greenstories.org.uk)
Playwright – High Flyers, New Vic Theatre (Borderlines) and Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation, July 16th, 2019.
Playwright – Cabinet of Curiosities, New Vic Theatre, July 18th – 27th 2018.
Playwright – Jameson & Son – Finalist at the Kenneth Branagh One Act Award, 2016

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