ELIOT GIURALAROCCA - ACTOR

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After studying for a degree in English Language and Literature at Christ Church, Oxford, Eliot trained as an actor at the Guildford School of Acting. Over the past 30 years he has worked as an actor in Theatre, Film, T.V. and Opera while also creating his own work, devising and developing projects as a Theatre-maker and working as a freelance Theatre Director. As Artistic Director of Dragonboy Productions, he brings this experience together to focus on creating and developing new work for the theatre. 

Recent work for Dragonboy Productions includes In and Out of Chekhov’s Shorts, which he adapted from some of the best of Anton Chekhov’s short stories. Eliot performed in and directed the show which toured to 27 theatres across the country before enjoying a short and critically acclaimed run at Southwark Playhouse where the production was awarded an OffComm. He wrote and directed Tales from a Thousand and One Nights which toured nationally and prior to this, Eliot played the role of Prospero in The Tempest - which he adapted and created with the Spanish company, Le Tendre Amour. The show opened the International Festival of Theatre in Malaga and subsequently played in France at the Théâtre de L'Oulle, Avignon and the Palace of Versailles as part of Festival Mois Moliere. It was performed at the Abbaye de Neumünster in Luxembourg as part of the British Council's Shakespeare Lives programme and at the International festival of theatre in Alcala, Madrid, the Teatro Real Coliseium Carlos III in El Escorial, the Auditori l´Atlàntida in Vic and at the Auditori Sant Cugat in Barcelona. The production was subsequently nominated for the Gran Premio de España de Artes Escénicas. 

Other acting credits include Oberon/Theseus/Narrator in The Fairy Queen (Armonico Consort/Wimbledon International Music Festival), William Hawkins in The Hamlet Voyage (Bristol Harbour Festival/Bridewell Theatre), Witness for the Prosecution (London County Hall), the Priest in Melly Still’s production of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, penned for the stage by Rona Munro (Harold Pinter Theatre, West End and tour), playing the title role in The Beekeeper (Blackeyed Theatre/Waterloo East) for which he received an OFFIE Best Actor nomination in the Off West End awards, Alice in Wonderland (Guildford Shakespeare Company), Alarms and Excursions (Chipping Norton), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Liverpool Playhouse Nottingham Playhouse), Il Turco In Italia (Royal Opera House); Measure for Measure (Thelma Holt Productions); A Small Family Business (Watford Palace Theatre); Don’t Look Now (Lyric Hammersmith); The Comedy of Errors, Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare's Globe); Twelfth Night (Royal Exchange Manchester); Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, Horse & Carriage (West Yorkshire Playhouse); The Black Dahlia, Buried Alive, The Cherry Orchard, Demons and Dybbuks (Method & Madness); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Nuffield Theatre Southampton); The Government Inspector (Salisbury Playhouse); Man for Hire (Stephen Joseph Theatre Scarborough); The Lion the Witch & the Wardrobe (Library Theatre Manchester); Oxygen (Tricycle Theatre). 

T.V. work : Mind Games (ITV) and Egypt (S4C). 

Film work : Slow Horses (Apple TV) Nine (Lucamar/ Weinstein); Night Swimming (Tri-Star); DIY Hard (British Film Foundation); Cake (Subrosa Films); The Security Control Room (Pukka Films)

Eliot is also an Associate Artist of Blackeyed Theatre and directed their productions of Frankenstein, (which won the IKE Award for outstanding theatre), The Great Gatsby, Dracula and Not About Heroes, all of which toured nationally. For Armonico Consort he directed Baroque Around the Block and Monteverdi's Flying Circus as well as a production of West Side Story that played at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry. Other directing credits include The Imperfect Pearl for Latimer Productions about the life of the Baroque composer Domenico Zipoli, the world premier of Knackerman by Rosanna Negrotti (White Bear Theatre) and Stephen Sharkey’s minaturist piece Retrospective (Arcola Theatre).

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