Elinor Peregrin

Elinor is an actor, writer, and musician from Birmingham. She is also a classically-trained multi-instrumentalist, folk musician and MD. She trained at LAMDA in acting & Guildhall in music.

Theatre includes: Radiant Boy (Southwark Playhouse); Pericles & Macbeth (RSC); Emilia, Titus Andronicus & The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare‘s Globe); my lover was a salmon in the climate apocalypse (Pleasance, Cockpit & Vault Festival); The Ballad of Rudy (Goblin Theatre), The Red Side of the Moon (Iris Theatre); Far Out (Omnibus); Our Town, Constellations, Consent & Twelfth Night (LAMDA). 

Music composition work includes: The Penelopiad (University of Birmingham); The Tempest (Theatre Ark); Twelfth Night (LAMDA); my lover was a salmon in the climate apocalypse (Pleasance, Cockpit & Vault Festival). 

She plays trombone and sackbut for a number of orchestras and ensembles across the UK both live in concert and in recording sessions; her specialism is in contemporary and early music. She also sings and plays bodhrán and guitar both as a solo folk artist and with her band, The Mistakings; having recently performed at a number of folk festivals and released the Mistakings’ Five Songs EP, she is working towards the release of her debut solo album. 

Elinor’s new musical about sheep farming, Elbow Deep, is being developed with the support of Birmingham Hippodrome’s New Musical Theatre department.