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. They are the winners of the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award in 2022.

Recent works include The Strangest of Angels (NZ Opera), Chekhov’s The Seagull - a new online version (Auckland Theatre Company) & Yes Yes Yes, a show about consent for young people (Auckland Live & NZ touring). In 2021 she was the Friedlander Foundation Associate Artist for NZ Opera and in 2023 she is part of Jane Campion’s pop up film intensive “A Wave in the Ocean”.

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. She is an alumna of the Académie du Festival d'Aix’s Women Opera Makers Workshop with Katie Mitchell, the European Commission Citizen Artist Incubator and a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Director’s Lab. She received her BA in Theatre (Honors) from Victoria University of Wellington.