Eleanor Bishop is a director and writer working across theatre, opera and film. She is a former Friedlander Foundation Associate Artist for NZ Opera for whom she directed her first opera in 2022 – The Strangest of Angels – a new work about the life of celebrated author Janet Frame by Anna Leese and Kenneth Young.
In partnership with writer/performer Karin McCracken as EBKM they have created the works Gravity & Grace, Heartbreak Hotel and Yes Yes Yes which have toured to Australia, North America & Europe. EBKM were the winners of the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award in 2022, the first time in the awards history it has been given to a partnership. She was a member of Jane Campion’s inaugural pop-up film intensive A Wave in the Ocean supported by Netflix and her first short film GIRL TIME recently premiered in official selection at the 82nd Venice Film Festival.
She holds an MFA in Directing from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, USA where she studied as a John Wells Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar.