Juliet Ellis

Juliet Ellis works as a director, performer and live art practioner. ‘I am an artist. I make theatre, happenings and events. My work is characterized by its haunting yet beautiful atmospheres, creating images that are visually compelling, evocative and disturbing, juxtaposing strange harmonies, which leave a sublime residue creating a world beyond language that seduces the eye of the watcher.’ The work exists in the moment sometimes not understood, taking the audience over the edge into the beatitude of dreams and inviting them to float on the dark sea of the mind. My underlying personal exploration resides in continuing to make challenging and provocative art, art that asks questions and fuels dreams, that searches for purity, truth and candour, and arouses a curiosity, questioning the nature of performance that crosses the borders between disciplines and examines our human existence. Juliet Ellis was Artist in Residence at greenroom, developing Autobiography in 5 chapters - a series of events which explored the disruption of language, space and visual architecture, examining performance, new technologies structure and form. The thematic references for her work return to loss, memory, journeys, death and isolation. Juliet Ellis has also worked with New York artist Julie Tolentino NY on The Bottom Project, Nigel Charnock in The Room (a performance installation), Award – winner Mem Morrison on Event. She has been a part of Greenroom’s Method Lab and Contact’s At Home residency. She also co- directed Somewhere the Shadow alongside Contact theatre’s Artistic Director John E. McGrath and directed the BBC Young Writers Festival 2003. . In addition, Juliet works as an actor in television, theatre and radio and is involved with developing scripts with new writers.