Elena Rigoni
Theatre Director
Theatre Producer
Movement Director
Script Writer
Assistant Stage Manager
I am an enthusiastic emerging Italian theatre director and producer. My pronouns are she/her. I am an alumni of the National Theatre's How to Be a Producer Course as well as being bart of CambioScena, an emerging Italian theatre collective.
I am passionate about access and inclusion. I love challenging myself and I am interested in new writing that display and question society's beliefs and issues.
Credits
Director, Street Contempt (Scratch Night), The Bread & Roses Theatre (London), 2024
Assistant Director, Little Fiend (workshop), Amazing Grace (London), 2023
Director Observer, Rigoletto, Opera Holland Park (London), 2023
Director/Writer/Performer, The Journey, Covent Garden Drama Studio (Cambridge), 2022
Director/Writer/Performer, It's Okay Not To Know, Ruskin Gallery (Cambridge), 2022
Director/Writer/Performer, p + c + 11 + f = Musical Formula, Mumford Theatre (Cambridge), 2022
Performer, 9 to 5: The Musical, Mumford Theatre (Cambridge), 2022
Performer, Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens, Mumford Theatre (Cambridge), 2021
Training
BA (Hons) Performing Arts, Anglia Ruskin University (1st) 2019 - 2022
How to Be a Producer Course (National Theatre, 2024)
Production Internship (Opera Holland Park, 2024)
Young Producers Course (Hackney Empire, 2023/2024)
Writers’ Room Course (Hackney Empire, 2022)
Stage Combat certificate (unarmed)
Part of the Management Team of the National Student Drama Festival 2022
"Directing vs Assistant Directing" workshop at NSDF 2022
"Workshopping a show with Barrel Organ" workshop at NSDF 2022
"What is R&D and how to make it work" workshop at NSDF2022
"Creating a character from very little" workshop at NSDF2022