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Ellie Jones
Theatre Director
reviews
Art
by Yasmina Reza
National Tour
“performed by three quality actors whose timing is impeccable and delivery is flawless while the direction – here by Ellie Jones – is pacy and dynamic.”
**** Anne Cox – Stage Review
Invincible
by Torben Betts
Orange Tree and St James Theatre
“Ellie Jones not only directs with a nice eye for class nuance, but links the scenes with wild dances that hint at the character's inner lives.”
**** Michael Billington- Guardian
Tanzi Libre
by Clare Luckham
Southwark Playhouse
“Ellie Jones’s magnificently OTT production… as much spectacle as stage play…with great fight choreography, a DJ- augmented party atmosphere, plus the sheer WTF factor of the whole spectacle.”
Andrzej Lukowski, Time Out
The BFG
by Roald Dahl
Adapted by David Wood
Derby LIVE
“...simply glorious…. incredible transpositions of scale are achieved by virtuoso puppetry…. a clever and seamless juxtaposition of puppetry and actors…The young
audience squeal with delight.”
****Alfred Hickling, The Guardian
Strange Orchestra
by Rodney Ackland
Orange Tree Theatre
“ Ellie Jones directs this production
with maturity and panache, and the young actors all work with a skill and sense of style quite rare in these estuary days.”
John Peter, The Sunday Times
Pandemonium: A Greek Mythadventure
by Jenifer Toksvig and David Perkins
Edinburgh Festival
“On the tight square acting area Ellie Jones’ production is a model of efficiency and inventiveness. The actors dance, play musical instruments and change their costumes more often than supermodels at a Paris fashion show.”
Michael Coveney, The Daily Mail
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About Ellie
Ellie is a freelance director based in Margate who likes to make impossible things possible. She is currently writing the book for a new musical version of Animal Farm playing at the Birmingham Hippodrome in April.
Ellie has combined theatre-based work with a wide range of site-specific productions including The New World Order (Brighton Festival and Barbican Bite); The Erpingham Camp (Brighton Festival on Brighton Pier); As You Like It (Arundel Festival) and A Christmas Carol, under the arches at Southwark Playhouse where she was Artistic Director. FULL CV
