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Estelle Shook

Director
Steel Magnolias

Artistic Director of Caravan Farm Theatre, Estelle has produced, developed, and/or directed

over 50 outdoor productions for the company, and has devoted her professional career to

advancing the art form of large scale, site specific theatre. Additional projects include associate

directing the Canadian Opera Company’s production of Louis Riel with Peter Hinton, directing

the Canadian Stage premiere of Jordan Tannahill’s Sunday in Sodom, which garnered six Dora

nominations and won the Dora award for Outstanding Production. Also for Canadian Stage,

she has directed Julius Caesar and The Winter’s Tale, and toured Stan Douglas’s Helen

Lawrence to Brooklyn and Antwerp. She returns to Caravan Farm Theatre this spring to direct a

reimagination of Shakespeare’s Richard III, in collaboration with Yvette Nolan and Ryan Beil.

She is thrilled to make her Globe debut.