Directing
Eleanor Wiens Farrelly
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Eleanor Wiens Farrelly is a Cinema Studies & Sexual Diversity Studies student at the University of Toronto, Canada. Eleanor is an indie writer, director, and filmmaker that seeks to explore and uncover societal issues through her art. Eleanor attended Rosedale Heights School of the Arts as a drama/musical theater major and media arts minor and won the principal’s graduating student award in drama. Eleanor has created films including Involuntary (2024), Not Another Shakespeare Tragedy (2024), FAKER! (2024) , My Confidential Romance (2022), and Isolation (2020). Involuntary was awarded Kudos at the Sci-Fi Horror & Action Film Festival and was a part of the official selection at the Trinity College Film Festival. The movie poster she created for Not Another Shakespeare Tragedy was part of the official selection for Best Poster at Yellowstone International Film Festival. Eleanor also creates music under the name of LENORE WTF, and wrote/sung/produced her first album, Gen Z Weirdo, when she was 18 in 2023, and her sophomore album, A Living Contradiction, in 2024. Eleanor also is interested in the management side of the arts and won Best Publicity (for Legally Blonde) at the 2024 University of Toronto Drama Coalition Awards. Eleanor also has experience with acting. Past roles include: Igor in Young Frankenstein (Victoria College, University of Toronto, 2024), Zac/Morgan in Want (Victoria College, University of Toronto, 2023), Jason/Ensemble in High School Musical 2 Shadowcast (Victoria College, University of Toronto, 2022), Ash Girl in The Ash Girl (Cardinal Carter Academy for the Arts, 2019), Morticia in The Addams Family Musical (Children’s Arts Theatre School, 2019), and The Witch in Into the Woods (TMU Musical Theatre Camp, 2019).
