Eleanor Albanese
Pronouns: She/Her
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Website: https://eleanoralbanese.square.site
Photographer: Alan Dickson
Eleanor Albanese has spent her life weaving stories through playwriting, fiction, puppetry, and filmmaking. Eleanor’s many theatre works for young audiences have toured nationally. She has also travelled to the Arctic and to the east and west coasts on numerous occasions for theatre residencies.
Recently, Eleanor served as the creative lead on the collaborative puppet project Foraging Lore in the Collective Forest with Mindful Makers. She also led an immersive, puppetry forest project titled Cradle Moon. In recent years, she was a lead subject and animator for an award-winning documentary film, Kam Theatre Lab: The Old Same Story. Her novel, If Tenderness Be Gold, published by Latitude 46 Publishing, was awarded 1st place in the category of First Fiction with the Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Her plays, non-fiction, and poetry works have been published in numerous anthologies and literary journals.
Samplings of Eleanor’s awards include the Government of Canada Collaboration Award, the Mentor Artist Award from Royal Conservatory, the Bay Street Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award for Under the Pearl Moon, and Vox Popular’s People’s Choice Award for her puppet film, The Cradle of Fiorella. In all her work, Eleanor seeks to open doors to transformational story-sharing, community building, and imagination activation.
