Eleanor Tindall is a British playwright and writer from London. She is best known for her debut play, Before I Was A Bear (2019), and her second play, Tender (2024). She was nominated for Best Writer at The Stage Debut Awards in 2020.
Eleanor Tindall took part in the Young Friends of the Almeida Writers Development Workshops in 2015. She later joined the Soho Theatre Writers Lab during 2016–17. Her first play, Before I Was A Bear, premiered at The Bunker Theatre in 2019.
The production received critical attention and gained her a nomination for Best Writer at The Stage Debut Awards in 2020. The play was revived for a sold-out run at Soho Theatre in June 2022.
Her development as a writer continued through various initiatives. In June 2024 she was selected for BBC Voices. The Donmar Warehouse also commissioned Eleanor to adapt Macbeth for young audiences. The adaptation, Macbeth: Something Wicked, toured schools across Camden and Westminster in summer 2024 and reached more than 3,500 pupils. Her play What if Orpheus Was Four Sad Women was shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award in 2024.
Tindall’s second play, Tender (2024), was a finalist for the Ambassador Theatre Group’s Playwriting Prize in association with Platform Presents. It was first staged at the Bush Theatre in November 2024, directed by Emily Aboud and produced by Broccoli Arts and Jessie Anand Productions. Nick Hern Books published the text.
Tender follows the story of two women, Ivy and Ash, whose lives are disrupted by a chance meeting. Ivy appears settled, with a flat and a relationship, but is troubled by the past she left in her childhood bedroom. Ash is newly single and uncertain of her future, yet her new flat is haunted by a pulsing wallpaper that resembles a heartbeat.
Eleanor Tindall described the play’s setting as “a haunted house, representing the inescapable presence of their pasts.” She also noted her instinct for the surreal: “The plays are definitely cousins,” she said when asked to compare Tender with her earlier work.
Reflecting on the collaborative process with director Emily Aboud and the creative team, she observed: “It no longer feels like mine, and I love that. Emily has done the most incredible job with this play, better than I could have ever imagined.”
Eleanor Tindall lives in London.
Photo credit: www.broccoliarts.uk
Eleanor Tindall took part in the Young Friends of the Almeida Writers Development Workshops in 2015. She later joined the Soho Theatre Writers Lab during 2016–17. Her first play, Before I Was A Bear, premiered at The Bunker Theatre in 2019.
The production received critical attention and gained her a nomination for Best Writer at The Stage Debut Awards in 2020. The play was revived for a sold-out run at Soho Theatre in June 2022.
Her development as a writer continued through various initiatives. In June 2024 she was selected for BBC Voices. The Donmar Warehouse also commissioned Eleanor to adapt Macbeth for young audiences. The adaptation, Macbeth: Something Wicked, toured schools across Camden and Westminster in summer 2024 and reached more than 3,500 pupils. Her play What if Orpheus Was Four Sad Women was shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award in 2024.
Tindall’s second play, Tender (2024), was a finalist for the Ambassador Theatre Group’s Playwriting Prize in association with Platform Presents. It was first staged at the Bush Theatre in November 2024, directed by Emily Aboud and produced by Broccoli Arts and Jessie Anand Productions. Nick Hern Books published the text.
Tender follows the story of two women, Ivy and Ash, whose lives are disrupted by a chance meeting. Ivy appears settled, with a flat and a relationship, but is troubled by the past she left in her childhood bedroom. Ash is newly single and uncertain of her future, yet her new flat is haunted by a pulsing wallpaper that resembles a heartbeat.
Eleanor Tindall described the play’s setting as “a haunted house, representing the inescapable presence of their pasts.” She also noted her instinct for the surreal: “The plays are definitely cousins,” she said when asked to compare Tender with her earlier work.
Reflecting on the collaborative process with director Emily Aboud and the creative team, she observed: “It no longer feels like mine, and I love that. Emily has done the most incredible job with this play, better than I could have ever imagined.”
Eleanor Tindall lives in London.
Photo credit: www.broccoliarts.uk
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