Elspeth Goodman

BA Production Arts


Biography

Elspeth is specialising in stage management with the focus to work as a technical stage manager.  She hopes to enter the industry as a technical assistant stage manager on productions that will challenge and develop her knowledge further.  She has a particular interest in working in the circus industry, after working professionally as the Wardrobe Assistant Stage Manager on The Little Prince at The Taunton Brewhouse in December 2022.

Elspeth is also interested in working in film and TV as a script supervisor after working on two short films, The Chore Chart, a BOVTS short film and Not Surgery House, an independent short.

Credits at BOVTS include Deputy Stage Manager on Emilia at Circomedia, Bristol. Stage Manager on The Donkey’s Tale, TIE Tour.  Assistant Stage Manager on Loam at Bristol Old Vic.  Deputy Stage Manager on Jumpers for Goalposts at The Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol.

 

It was always stressed that the contacts you make during your training are incredibly important, and your classmates are likely to end up being on set alongside you in the future. After working with a director of photography on one of the School’s short films, I was invited to work on a project with him outside of Bristol - proving that the professionals we meet via the School, may one day give us a call to action! Muir McFadden, Technical Graduate