ELIOT GIURALAROCCA

The Production Exchange
+44 [0]207 686 3215  office@theproductionexchange.com
After studying for a degree in English Language and Literature at Oxford, Eliot has spent 25 years working solidly as an actor in Theatre, Film, T.V. and Opera while also working as an actor, theatre Director and Theatre maker. He is Artistic Director of Dragonboy Productions and an Artistic associate of Blackeyed Theatre.

​Eliot directed and performed in Dragonboy Production's last show, In and Out of Chekhov’s Shorts, which he adapted from some of the best of Anton Chekhov’s short stories. The production toured to 27 theatres across the country and was warmly received by critics and audiences alike. His production of The Tempest, which he adapted and created for the British Council's Shakespeare Lives programme, toured throughout Europe and was subsequently nominated for the Spanish Grand Prize for the Performing Arts. 

He directed Blackeyed Theatre’s acclaimed national tours of Frankenstein, The Great Gatsby, Dracula and Not About Heroes, while for Armonico Consort he directed productions of Baroque around the Block,Monteverdi’s Flying Circus and The Imperfect Pearl an Arts Council funded production about the life of the Baroque composer Domenico Zipoli. He directed West Side Story for the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, the world premiere of Knackerman by Rosanna Negrotti at the White Bear Theatre and Stephen Sharkey’s minaturist piece, Retrospective at the Arcola Theatre.

Eliot is currently working on the next Dragonboy Production show Tales from a Thousand and One Nights a brand new adaptation of some of the best and most entertaining folk tales found in The Arabian Nights.
Credits
THEATRE
IN AND OUT OF CHEKHOV'S SHORTS - UK TOUR, Dragonboy Productions
THE TEMPEST, Le Tendre Amour/Dragonboy Productions
FRANKENSTEIN: Mary Shelley, adapted by John Ginman: Blackeyed Theatre
THE GREAT GATSBY: F. Scott Fitzgerald, adapted by Stephen Sharkey: Blackeyed Theatre
WEST SIDE STORY, Armonico Concert/Belgrade Theatre Coventry
DRACULA: Bram Stoker, adapted by John Ginman: Blackeyed Theatre
NOT ABOUT HEROES: Steven MacDonald: Blackeyed Theatre
BAROQUE AROUND THE BLOCK: by Stewart Collins for Armonico Concert
MONTEVERDI'S FLYING CIRCUS: by Kit Hesketh Harvey for Armonico Consort
THE IMPERFECT PEARL : A BAROQUE FAIRYTALE, by Mark Latimer and Will Towers for Latimer Productions
KNACKERMAN: by Rosanna Negrotti for White Bear Theatre, Kennington 
RETROSPECTIVE: By Stephen Sharkey for Arcola Theatre
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
THE BEEKEEPER (Nominated for Best Actor Off West End Awards)

THE TEMPEST (Nominated for the Gran Premio de España de Artes Escénicas.)