Elinor Peregrin

Elinor is an award-winning musical theatre writer and composer from Birmingham. She is also an actor as well as a classically-trained multi-instrumentalist, folk musician, music supervisor and MD. She trained at LAMDA in acting & Guildhall in music.

She has performed as an actor/musical theatre performer in productions such as No Such Thing As Wolves (Birmingham Hippodrome), my lover was a salmon in the climate apocalypse (Wuzhen Theatre Festival, Pleasance Edinburgh, The Cockpit & Vault Festival) and The Red Side of the Moon (Iris Theatre).

Amongst other projects Elinor was music director/supervisor on both Pericles and Macbeth (Royal Shakespeare Company), Radiant Boy (Southwark Playhouse) and the recent REVERB (Almeida Theatre); and as a theatre musician she has played for various productions including Emilia, Titus Andronicus and The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare's Globe Theatre).

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 folk album. 

Elinor’s new musical about sheep farming, Elbow Deep, has been commissioned by Birmingham Hippodrome and is being developed for early concert performances in the Summer of 2026. She has also won the New Music Theatre Award for her musical SEA CHANGE, which is being co-written with Will Jackson for British Youth Music Theatre and is due to be performed in August 2026 at Birmingham Hippodrome's Patrick Studio Theatre.