Ellen has toured extensively throughout Australia, Asia and North America with companies including Windmill Theatre Company, State Theatre Company of South Australia, Vitalstatistix, Slingsby, Belvoir, The Border Project, and Patch Theatre.

As an independent maker Ellen has developed work with Aphids, TerryandTheCuz, Handspring Puppet Company, The Border Project, Larissa McGowan, Spilt Second and Zoe Meagher for Next Wave Festival, Arlo Mountford, Misery Children and Sanctum Theatre.

In 2019 - 2020, Ellen was recipient of an Arts SA Fellowship, undertaking research into cross-cultural theatre making practices in Beijing and Adelaide alongside the development of a new cross-cultural work, The Friendly Games.

Ellen’s latest work See You at the Dance is currently in development and supported by Vitalstatistix and Brink Productions.

She is a founding member of isthisyours?, an all-female collective committed to creating new and unconventional performance. Since their inception in 2007, isthisyours? have created five original full-scale works, toured nationally and won multiple awards. Their works The Club, Angelique and The Awkward Years were produced y Insite, and their newest, The Dog Show, is currently in development.