After studying for a degree in English Language and Literature at Christ Church, Oxford, Eliot trained as an actor at GSA. Over the past 35 years he has worked in Theatre, Film, T.V. and Opera while also creating his own work as Artistic Director of Dragonboy Productions and working as a freelance Theatre Director. For Dragonboy Productions he wrote, performed and directed, In and Out of Chekhov’s Shorts, which toured nationally before enjoying a critically acclaimed run at Southwark Playhouse winning an OffComm. He played Prospero in The Tempest which he created with the Spanish troupe La Tendre Amour. The show opened the International Festival of Theatre in Malaga and subsequently played throughout Europe including at the Palace of Versailles in the Festival Mois Moliere, the Abbaye de Neumünster in Luxembourg as part of the British Council's Shakespeare Lives programme and at International festivals and theatres throughout Spain. It was subsequently nominated for the Gran Premio de España de Artes Escénicas. West End credits include Who Killed Marilyn? (Emerald Theatre), Witness for the Prosecution (London County Hall), Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (Harold Pinter), Don’t Look Now (Lyric), Measure for Measure (Geilgud), Il Turco In Italia (Royal Opera House), The Comedy of Errors and Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare's Globe); He has performed extensively in regional theatres and playhouses across the country including work at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, Birmingham Rep, Sheffield Theatres, Liverpool and Nottingham Playhouses and played the title role in Blackeyed Theatre's production of The Beekeeper (Waterloo East) for which he received an OFFIE Best Actor nomination. T.V. work includes Mind Games (ITV) and Egypt (S4C) while film work includes Slow Horses (Apple TV) Nine (Lucamar/ Weinstein); Night Swimming (Tri-Star); DIY Hard (British Film Foundation); Cake (Subrosa Films) and The Security Control Room (Pukka Films) Eliot's directing work includes Frankenstein (IKE Award for outstanding theatre), The Great Gatsby, Dracula and Not About Heroes (Blackeyed Theatre), Baroque Around the Block and Monteverdi's Flying Circus (Armonico Consort), West Side Story (Belgrade Theatre) The Imperfect Pearl (Latimer Productions), Knackerman (White Bear) and Retrospective (Arcola).
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