Elin Schofield

Elin is an award-winning director, writer and movement director. Recent credits include Revival Director on James Graham’s Olivier Award-winning Dear England (National Theatre/Lowry), Revival Director for the West End transfer of Till the Stars Come Down (National Theatre/West End), and Associate Director on the Olivier Award-winning musical Standing at the Sky’s Edge (National Theatre/Sheffield Theatres/West End). She has also collaborated with internationally renowned writer and director Alexander Zeldin, most recently on the Off-Broadway tour of LOVE. In 2022 she directed the final instalment of Chris Bush’s ambitious Rock, Paper, Scissors trilogy and won a UK Theatre Award for Best Director. More recently, she directed Bush’s adaptation of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (Sheffield Crucible Theatre, 2024). A graduate of the University of Sheffield, Elin is a co-founder of Footprint Theatre and established the Young Company at Sheffield Theatres. She trained on the National Theatre’s NT Studio Director’s Course, and has further developed her practice through Sheffield Theatres’ Bank Scheme and Company Three’s Making Work with Young People programme. Before moving into directing, Elin was a competitive Latin American and Ballroom dancer and teacher.

Selected directing credits include Till the Stars Come Down (West End – Revival Director), Dear England (National Theatre – Revival Director), A Doll’s House (Sheffield Crucible), Scissors (Crucible Studio), The Queen’s Head (Battersea Arts Centre), Screwdriver (Lyric Hammersmith/Sheffield Theatres), and Signals and Daniel (Footprint Theatre/UK tour).

Associate and assistant director credits include Dear England (National Theatre/West End), LOVE (Off-Broadway, dir. Alexander Zeldin), Standing at the Sky’s Edge (National Theatre/Sheffield Theatres/West End, dir. Rob Hastie), The Narcissist (Chichester Festival Theatre, dir. Josh Seymour), Talent (Sheffield Crucible Theatre, dir. Paul Foster), Stick Man (Leicester Square Theatre and UK Tour, dir. Sally Cookson), hang (Crucible Studio, dir. Taio Lawson), and Pop Music (Paines Plough/UK Tour, dir. James Grieve).

Movement direction credits include Seagulls (Bolton Octagon Theatre), The Changing Room (Crucible Studio), and The Snow Queen and The Nutcracker (Theatr Clwyd).