Ellie Keel

Ellie is an Olivier Award-nominated theatre producer, the youngest ever winner of The Stage’s Producer of the Year Award (in 2024), and the Founder Director of the Women’s Prize for Playwriting. She also collaborated in the founding of the award-winning LGBT+ youth charity Just Like Us. She is currently a Trustee of London Youth Theatre and the Brontë Society, and the National Theatre’s Producing Course Leader.

Her first novel The Four was published by Harper Collins in the UK and US in 2024, has been published in Spanish and French, and was an instant Sunday Times bestseller. Her journalism and short stories have appeared in The Stage, The Guardian and The Daily Express. She is currently writing her next novel and her first scripted work.

Photographer: Felix Mosse