Eleanor Holdridge

Biography

Eleanor Holdridge is a professor of drama and chair of the Department of Drama.

Holdridge has directed plays for over 30 years. Off-Broadway productions include world premieres of “Selma ’65” (LaMaMa), “Steve & Idi” (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre) and “Cycling Past the Matterhorn” (Clurman Theatre). Regional world premieres include Ken Ludwig’s “Lend Me A Soprano,” David Grimm’s adaptation of “Cyrano de Bergerac” and Lauren Gunderson’s “The Revolutionists” (Cincinnati Playhouse), NNPN Rolling World Premieres of Lauren Gunderson’s “Miss Bennett: Christmas at Pemberley” and “I and You,” Meg Maroshnik’s “Fickle: A Fancy French Farce” and Caleen Sinnette Jennings’ “Queens Girl in the World” (Theatre J). She has directed 24 of Shakespeare’s plays, some of them multiple times.

Holdridge recently directed “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder” at Olney Theatre Center in Maryland. Her upcoming directing projects include a workshop of Maggie Lou Radar’s “The Best Little Cat House in Scab Holler” for the Made in Cincy festival at Cincinnati Playhouse, a reading of her adaptation of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “The Cenci” at The Red Bull Theatre in New York and a production of Ken Ludwig’s “Death on the Nile” at the Alley Theater in Houston, Texas.

Education

• M.F.A., Yale University
• B.A., Sarah Lawrence College