ELLEN HEMPHILL

Artistic and Managing Director, Co-Founder
Ellen Hemphill is Artistic Director, Managing Director and co-Founder of Archipelago Theatre Company in Chapel Hill, NC. She has directed for Archipelago: The Woman in the Attic,And Mary Wept, A New Fine Shame, Snow, Amor Fortuna, Blue Roses, Eulogy for a Warrior, Ten-in One, Those Women, Landscape, Silence and Night, Binky Kite and the Oxymorons, The Abdication, and Escurial. Ellen is also a singer and performer and wrote and performed in the solos Another Time, Another Place...Someone Else, Cassandra's Lullaby, and She Didn't Like the Moon Without Clouds. She is a member of the faculty of Duke Theatre Studies Department since 1993 and directed their productions of: The Crucible The Trojan Women and Exit the King. Ellen also teaches Voice and Gesture with the American Dance Festival ('92) and is a long time member of the Roy Hart Theatre of France, where she worked and performed for 13 years. She is also a private consultant for professionals through Cardea Consulting. Ellen currently lives in Chapel Hill, N.C.