Elly Roberts

Actor Director Production Assistant

Hello- I’m Elly, I’m a Royal Welsh acting grad based in London, represented by ITG.

As a freelance director and production assistant, I am currently at Francesca Moody Productions: I really enjoy reading new writing and seeing new work regularly.

I’ve also been working as a youth theatre director for the last decade and am always on the lookout for new games and approaches to rehearsals. I’m DBS checked, First Aid trained, Youth Mental Health certified and have a chaperoning licence.

I particularly love work that explores:
- nuanced family relationships
- intimacy
- education
- justice
- artificial intelligence
- climate/ environment

As a Freelancer I’ve worked with the Casting Directors’ Guild, Francesca Moody Productions, Rose Theatre Kingston, Orange Tree Theatre; NYT (National Youth Theatre), We Are Fio, RWCMD and Shene Stage School.

Please get in touch if you’d like to collaborate together, get a hot drink, or if I can watch/ read your play- it’d make me very happy!

Credits

Current Projects:

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT, Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder, Ambassadors Theatre, 16 weeks, 2024

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT, An Oak Tree, Bergen International Festival/ Jersey Arts Centre 2024

Upcoming Theatre Credits:

DIRECTOR, The Railway Children, 2024

Previous Theatre Credits:

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Ada, National Youth Theatre, 12 performances, 2023

DIRECTOR, Consensual, Rose Youth Theatre, 2 performances, 2023

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT, Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible is Going to Happen, 6 weeks, Bush Theatre 2023

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT, Nutcracker, Southbank Centre, 8 weeks, 2023

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT, Kathy and Stella Solve a Murder, Underbelly Edinburgh, Bristol Old Vic and HOME Manchester, 2023

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT, Never Have I Ever, Chichester Festival Theatre, 2023

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT, An Oak Tree, Lyceum Edinburgh, 4 weeks, 2023

DIRECTOR/ SOUND DESIGNER, The Great Gatsby, Rose Youth Theatre, 1 week, 2023

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT, School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, Lyric Hammersmith, 2023

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT, Berlusconi the Musical, Southwark Playhouse Elephant and Castle, 2023

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, The Great Gatsby, Rose Youth Theatre, dir. Anthony Hoskyns, 2023

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, Junkyard, Rose Youth Theatre, dir. Anthony Hoskyns, 2023

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, Richard Burton Theatre, 10 days, dir. Emily Ling Williams, 2022

ACTOR (Fizzla), Jungle Green, The Yard/ RWCMD, 1 week, 2022

ACTOR (Halina, The Middle), Indecent, RWCMD, dir. Zoe Templeman Young, 1 week, 2022

ACTOR (Melville/ Aubespine), Mary Stuart, RWCMD, dir. Daniel Raggett, 1 week, 2022

ACTOR (Toni), Appropriate, RWCMD, dir. Emily Ling Williams, 10 days, 2021

ACTOR (Susan), Abigail's Party, RWCMD, dir. Charlotte Westenra, 1 week, 2021

CREATER/ ACTOR, Widowed, RWCMD, Short Film, 2021

ACTOR, Rapid Write Response to An Ordeal, Theatre 503, Elliot Ajaj-Ajagbe

WRITER (collaboration) and ACTOR, The Expense of Simplicity, dir. Oliver Parnell, Etcetera Theatre, 2 days 2018

DIRECTOR and PRODUCER, Othello, Rose Theatre Studio, 2 days 2018

Training

BA (Hons) Acting, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, 2022

RADA: Objectives in Text 2016

National Theatre Workshops 2015-2020

National Youth Theatre Member Since 2017

Orange Tree Youth Theatre / NT Connections 2018

Rose Youth Theatre 2015-2018

Location

London

Experience

5-10 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Comedy
  • Film - short
  • Radio/Audio
  • Theatre / Live perfomance
  • TV - drama

What I do

  • Creative Access
  • Devising
  • Directing
  • Dramaturgy
  • Facilitating
  • Music - Singing
  • Outdoor performance
  • Performance Art
  • Performing
  • Producing
  • Puppetry
  • Site Responsive/Immersive
  • Sound Design
  • Street Theatre
  • Teaching / Coaching
  • Theatre making
  • Verbatim theatre
  • Working with disabled artists
  • Working with disabled non-professional adults / children
  • Working with learning disabled adults / children
  • Working with learning disabled artists
  • Working with young people
  • Working with young people with special educational needs
  • Working within a Community / with community participants
  • Workshopping & Development

Additional Languages

Conversational Spanish, Basic Norwegian

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