Simone Ellul

Guest Instructor

Simone is a theatre practitioner from Malta. She has an MFA in Staging Shakespeare from the University of Exeter and a strong background in scripted theatre. She is a member of the improv troupes Playing Dead Theatre and Sabir, the online troupe Close Distance and is one half of the duos Invisible Women and Pairentheses.
She was a founding member of the Brussels-based troupe The Ghost Sheep. She has taught at the Dramatic Improv Festival (Chicago), at Agorapp (Italy), Wonder Improv Festival (Paris), Improfest (Ostrava, Czechia) and at ImproBrussels. She is the Artistic Director of Improvizza!, an improv festival based in Malta.
She is also an intimacy director and coordinator, working on various projects for stage and screen. Exploring ways of making intimacy safe for improvisers has led her to develop workshops that allow improvisers to dig deeper in their scenes and express intimacy naturally and safely.