Executive Producer Ellie Keel’s selected credits are the sell-out shows HOTTER and FITTER by Mary Higgins and Ell Potter (Soho Theatre), Collapsible by Margaret Perry (VAULT Festival, HighTide’s Disruption Festival in Edinburgh and Aldeburgh, and subsequently at the Dublin Fringe and the Bush Theatre, London), Anna Bella Eema by Lisa D’Amour (Arcola Theatre), Redefining Juliet (Barbican Centre), Callisto: a queer epic by Hal Coase (Pleasance, Edinburgh & Arcola Theatre, London), and Mrs Dalloway by Hal Coase (Arcola Theatre), The Last Show Before We Die by Mary Higgins and Ell Potter (Roundabout @ Summerhall, Edinburgh 2023), Bullring Techno Makeout Jamz by Nathan Queeley-Dennis (Roundabout @ Summerhall, Edinburgh, Royal Court Theatre 2023; UK National Tour Autumn 2024), An Interrogation by Jamie Armitage (Summerhall, Edinburgh 2023; Hampstead Theatre 2025), SAP by Rafaella Marcus (Roundabout @ Summerhall, Edinburgh, 2022; Soho Theatre & UK National Tour 2023).

In October 2019 Ellie Keel founded The Women’s Prize for Playwriting. The prize is co-produced by EKP and Paines Plough in association with Sonia Friedman Productions. 

Prior to founding EKP, Ellie worked with Thelma Holt Ltd, the Cameron Mackintosh Foundation and the Oxford Playhouse. She also worked in programming and marketing for OperaUpClose and as a producer at The North Wall. She read German and Italian at Brasenose College, Oxford.

In November 2023, Natasha Ketel joined the EKP team, working as Ellie Keel’s assistant and a producer on Bellringers and the tour for Bullring Techno Makeout Jamz.

In August 2023, EKP presented a season of three shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe: The Last Show Before We Die by Mary Higgins and Ell Potter, in co-production with Hotter Project; An Interrogation by Jamie Armitage; and Bullring Techno  Makeout Jamz by Nathan Queeley-Dennis with Paines Plough and Belgrade Theatre in association with Royal Exchange Theatre. Following this, Bullring Techno Makeout Jamz transferred to the Royal Court Theatre and will tour the UK in October and November in 2024 and An Interrogation is set to transfer to Hampstead Theatre in January 2025.

In August 2019, EKP presented a season of four shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Collapsible by Margaret Perry, in co-production with HighTide; Son of Dyke by Jordan Waller; HOTTER by Mary Higgins and Ell Potter; and Where to Belong by Victor Esses, in co-production with Victor Esses.

Ellie Keel has also produced large-scale, site-specific plays with The Big House Theatre Company, a charity working with vulnerable young people. Her credits for The Big House include Loose Lips by Katherine Soper and the award-winning Bullet Tongue by Sonya Hale and Andrew Day.

In 2017 Ellie co-founded Heretic Voices at Arcola Theatre, an international competition to produce and publish the best new writing for the stage in monologue form. The judging panel comprised Michael Billington, Lolita Chakrabarti, Monica Dolan, and Mel Kenyon. The competition attracted 1,176 entries. The winning scripts were A Hundred Words for Snow by Tatty Hennessy, directed by Max Gill; Woman Caught Unaware by Annie Fox, directed by Jessica Edwards; and Dean McBride by Sonya Hale, directed by Roy Alexander Weise.

In 2016 Ellie co-founded (with Lucy Maycock, Ria Parry and John Hoggarth) Alchymy Festival at The North Wall to support and showcase the work of some of the most talented early-career theatre-makers in the country. Alchymy Festival is now thriving in its fourth year.