Ellen Steele
Ellen Steele is a theatre maker, performer and director based in Adelaide, South Australia.
Biography
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.