Eleanor Bishop is a director and writer working across theatre, opera and film.

Working in Aotearoa-New Zealand, she has been described as “one of New Zealand’s most daring, intelligent, and political directors” (The Theatre Times). She works closely with writer/performer Karin McCracken as EBKM and their works include Gravity & Grace, Heartbreak Hotel and Yes Yes Yes, an award winning play about consent for young people which has toured to Australia, Canada & Europe and has been translated into multiple languages. EBKM are 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 is a former Friedlander Foundation Associate Artist for NZ Opera with whom she directed her first opera The Strangest of Angels - a new work about the life of celebrated author Janet Frame.

For the last two years she has been a member of Jane Campion’s pop up film intensive “A Wave in the Ocean” supported by Netflix and has just completed her first short film.

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. She is a former associate director for New York based multimedia theatre company The Builders Association/Marianne Weems.