Ellie Isherwood
Composer, Sound Designer
Biography
Ellie Isherwood is a sound designer, composer, actor / musician and synth-pop artist (BYFYN). Her “dynamic” and “quietly ground breaking” work spans musicals and straight plays alike, embracing an array of forms from site-specific theatre to immersive binaural audio experiences.
This year, Ellie was made the Associate Artist for The New Wolsey Theatre and was selected as a finalist for the prestigious Stiles and Drewe Best New Song Prize with her song “Nice Girls Never Win.” from the upcoming new musical, “VAMP”.
Recent work includes performance and composition for the stage adaptation of Lemony Snicket’s “The Dark” and composition and sound design for “Dweeb-a-mania” at Polka Theatre.
Other recent credits for theatre include, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (The Orange Tree Theatre); Disco Inferno (National Youth Theatre); The Sleep Show (UK Tour); Cartoonopolis (Pleasance); The Gel (New Diorama) The Intrusion (UK Tour); Tender (The Bush Theatre); The Fir Tree (Arts Depot); Son of a Bitch (Summerhall, Edinburgh Fringe); The Odyssey (The Unicorn); The Light Princess (The Albany, Deptford / ARC – Stockton Arts Centre); The Glass Ceiling Beneath the Stars (Pleasance); and Ruby Wax: I’m Not As Well As I Thought I Was (U.K. Tour)
Credits
In Development
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
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Vamp 2025 |
SheWolves |
Composer of Original Stage Musical |
Theatre
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
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Scenes From A Friendship 2026 |
Nottingham Playhouse |
Composer and Sound Designer Directed by Hannah Stone |
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THE KING STONE 2026 |
ADMA Theatre, Nottingham Playhouse |
Composer and Sound Designer Directed by Hannah Stone
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderland 2025 |
Orange Tree Theatre |
Composer and Sound Designer Young Company show directed by Matt Hassall
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Dweeb-A Mania 2025 |
Polka Theatre |
Composer and Sound Designer Directed by Hannah Stone |
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Disco Inferno 2025 |
National Youth Theatre |
Sound Designer Written by Martha Watson Allpress |
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The Gel 2025 |
Oxford School of Drama |
Dir. Gabe Winsor |
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Tender 2024 |
Bush Theatre |
Dir. Emily Aboud |
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The Odyssey 2024 |
The Unicorn |
Dir. Jennifer Tang |
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The Fir Tree 2024 |
How It Ended, Arts Depot |
Dir. by Eva Samspson |
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Son of a Bitch 2024 |
Thelmas, Summerhall Edinburgh Fringe |
Written & performed by Anna Morris |
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Rock DJ 2024 |
New Diorama Theatre, Oxford School of Drama |
Dir. by Emily Aboud |
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The Light Princess 2023 |
LAS Theatre, The Albany Deptford |
Composer and Sound Designer |
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The Glass Ceiling Beneath the Stars 2023 |
Bric à Brac Theatre, Grace Dickson Productions, Pleasance |
Dir. Anna Marshall |
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I'm Not As Well As I Thought I Was 2023 |
YMU Entertainment |
Dir. Alison Summers |
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Savage Heart Spring 2023 |
Certain Dark Things, UK Tour |
Sound Designer |
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Rapture 2022 |
Pleasance, Pink Sky Theatre |
Composition and Sound Design |
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Lemony Snicket's "The Dark" 2021 – 2022 |
Peut-Être Theatre |
Composer, Actor and Musician UK Tour 2021-22 |
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Heroin to Hero 2022 |
Ameena Hamid Productions, Edinburgh Fringe |
Composition and Sound Design |
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Shewolves 2022 |
Pink Sky Theatre |
Composition and Sound Design |
| As Associate | ||
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When Winston Went to War With the Wireless 2023 |
Donmar Warehouse |
Associate to Ben and Max Ringham |
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We're All Doomed 2022 |
Above The Fray Productions |
Associate to Ben and Max Ringham |
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A Dead Body In Taos 2022 |
Fuel Theatre |
Associate to Ben and Max Ringham |
Podcast
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
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Audiomoves Goes to Sleep 2024 |
Peut Etre |
Composition and Sound Design |
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Audiomoves in Space 2025 |
Peut Etre |
Podcast |
Other
| Production | Company | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Thorpe Park - Survival Games Ride | Thorpe Park |
Composition for theme park ride |
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Listen To The Great Hall 2022 |
Two Temple Place |
Associate to Ben and Max Ringham |
