19 Facts About Marianne Elliott

Marianne Phoebe Elliott was born on 27 December 1966 and is a British theatre director and producer who works on the West End and Broadway.

Marianne Elliott has received numerous accolades including three Laurence Olivier Awards and four Tony Awards.

Marianne Elliott has received critical and box-office success directing West End original productions of War Horse in 2007, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time in 2012, as well as revivals of Tony Kushner's Angels in America in 2017, Stephen Sondheim's musical Company in 2018 and Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman in 2019, all of which transferred to Broadway.

Marianne Elliott was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in Queen Elizabeth II's 2018 Birthday Honours for her services to theatre.

Marianne Elliott was born in 1966 in London, the daughter of Michael Marianne Elliott, theatre director and co-founder of the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester, and actress Rosalind Knight.

Marianne Elliott has said she "hated" the theatrical professions as a child "and used to ask [her parents] not to talk shop".

Marianne Elliott was nurtured by Greg Hersov, who she has described as her "biggest influence", and she worked her way up including being appointed artistic director in 1998.

In 2002 Marianne Elliott's career saw her move from Manchester to London, when she was invited by Artistic Director Ian Rickson to become an associate director of the Royal Court Theatre.

In 2006, she was invited by Nicholas Hytner, who Marianne Elliott has said "seemed to value [her] talent more highly than I did" to make her National Theatre debut with Ibsen's Pillars of the Community, which led to her being invited back to direct Saint Joan, starring Anne-Marie Duff, which won the Olivier Award for Best Revival in 2008.

Marianne Elliott became an associate director under Hytner, and directed a series of important, influential and highly successful productions including War Horse and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

Marianne Elliott produced the second West End revival of Company in which Bobbie was played by a woman.

Marianne Elliott has agreed to the odd lyric change, but essentially I'm hoping to tweak it as little as possible.

Marianne Elliott basically said, 'Marianne, you need to be sitting down, you need to have a glass of wine in your hand, you need to take a deep breath: I think it's a great idea.

In 2019, Elliott co-directed Death of a Salesman alongside Miranda Cromwell, which starred Wendell Pierce and Sharon D Clarke at the Young Vic Theatre with an all-black Loman family.

In March 2020, Marianne Elliott's Olivier-award-winning production of Company opened at the Bernard Jacobs Theatre on Broadway on Stephen Sondheim's 90th Birthday Birthday.

Marianne Elliott directed Tamsin Greig and Harriet Walter in the new version of Talking Heads by Alan Bennett for the BBC in 2020.

Marianne Elliott has established creative relationships with actors and theatre creatives through the years:.

Marianne Elliott married the actor Nick Sidi in 2002, they have one daughter.

Marianne Elliott was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2018 Birthday Honours for services to theatre.