Liv Ello is an actor, writer, director and ‘anarchist clown’ based in London. At the core of their work is an urgency for compassion, combined with a zeal for anarchistic values. Liv’s blend of poetic language, comedy and crucial subject matter has earned them praise from The Guardian, Time Out, The Independent, The Scotsman, The Stage and i.
Their debut solo show, SWARM (‘a scathing appraisal of Britain’s political parasites’, Guardian) is nominated for an Offie Award, as well as previously winning the Pleasance Award, following their successful run at the Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Fringe 2022. SWARM returned for sell-out runs at Camden People’s Theatre and VAULT Festival 2023.
Recently, Liv has just completed a sell-out run of their new show, Body Show at the Edinburgh Fringe and and another sell out 3-week run at Soho Theatre, co-created and performed with their long-term collaborator, Frankie Thompson. The show received much critical acclaim, earning the duo a spot in The Stage’s ‘Fringe Five’ - their pick of the most innovative theatre-makers of the moment.
Liv is also an experienced facilitator, a former course leader at a drama school, as well as regular facilitator and practitioner at drama schools, universities and theatre companies working with a wide range of participants - whether professional actors, writers and theatre makers, queer cabaret performers, young people and those with physical and learning disabilities. Liv's ambition is to create spaces of creative development for those usually excluded from educational and development opportunities as an artist. Unfortunately, the space in inaccessible for wheelchair users.