Theatre Director
Contemporary drama, comedy, classic repertoire and new writing, where theatre positions the audience at the heart of the storytelling.
“Brilliantly inventive, slick, and hilarious.”
Audience
“Everything was spot on, the timing, the staging, the interaction with us the audience.”
Audience
“They didn’t drop a beat – unless they were meant to!”
Audience
A new short play by Lauren Sudworth, developed with the writer from work in progress to festival stage.
by Martin McDonagh.
“A deliciously dark drama.”
Stamford Mercury
“Captivating, yet sometimes uncomfortable to watch.”
Stamford Mercury
“A brilliantly acted production … plenty of emotional depth.”
Stamford Mercury
by Charlotte Keatley.
“A beautiful, thought-provoking and richly layered piece of theatre.”
Audience
“I was so impressed with the ease with which you all managed very difficult non-chronological scene shifts.”
Audience
Finding the structure in a story, and the life in a text.
Estella Todisco is a theatre director working across contemporary drama, comedy, classic repertoire and new writing. She is completing an MA in Theatre Direction at the University of East Anglia, and is particularly interested in collaborative approaches to developing text with writers and actors.
She began in documentary television, working with independent production companies on programmes for BBC Two, Channel 4 and National Geographic. That work sharpened her instinct for finding structure in complex, non-linear material. She later worked in education before returning to formal theatre training.
Her productions at Stamford Arts Centre include My Mother Said I Never Should, The Beauty Queen of Leenane and The 39 Steps, which played to sold-out houses. In 2026 she directed Lauren Sudworth’s new play Watershed at the Lighthouse Festival, UEA. It has since been selected for the 15 Minutes of Frame competition at the Gene Frankel Theatre, New York.
She also assisted director Tom Fox on Treasure Island at The Key Theatre, Peterborough.
She is currently working with writers on new plays, including Life Class with Cathy Mellor and Sex, Then Death with Lauren Sudworth.