Edalia Day

Theatre has always been where my heart is. I trained as an actor in 2006 and then began regularly touring the UK in a mix of Shakespeare, Children's theatre and actor musician shows. In 2012 I graduated from Lecoq and 2 years later toured In The Surface Of A Bubble, an ensemble show about how the world came to be, full of masks, martial arts, music and puppetry. A few years later I discovered a love of incorporating animation and projection into my shows with Super Hamlet 64, combining videogames and shakespeare, and since then my theatre making journey really feels like it's come into its own. Too Pretty To Punch toured alongside Super Hamlet 64 for 5 years, celebrating trans and non binary identities and critiquing the mainstream media biases on trans rights and this was followed by Spectacular Spacebots, a kids show about an autistic robot who goes on space adventures.

My roots are in movement, poetry and clowning. As a Lecoq alumni play is a huge part of every piece I create. Playfulness with language, playfulness with music, with movement, with projection, with audience expectations. I thrive on always working from a place of joy, and of carrying the audience softly through hard themes and places of solidarity and self discovery.

In 2024 1623 Theatre company commissioned me to begin work on Queericles, a new show about a fantastical 30 year journey of a trans family fleeing persecution, based loosely on Shakespeare's Pericles. Development for this is ongoing. And in 2025 I wrote Let People Like You, a joyful antidote to the media hostility we come across every day. 

I'm currently developing a number of new ideas including a film noir absurdist storytelling piece with animations and looping music, a part participatory project combining dance and poetry, a cabaret style show full of comedy songs, and light hearted clown show with projections exploring grief. 

Since 2023 I've become and avid barbershop singer and contemporary dancer in my spare time and these skills have also been slipping into my work in deft and delightful ways.