I have directed new plays and classic texts, in regional, academic, and off-broadway spaces.

I have directed at theaters that include People’s Light Theater in PA, Gloucester Stage in MA, So & So Arts in London, Hudson Guild Theater in NYC, and the Fisher Center at Bard College. From 2017-2018, I was a resident artist at the St. Ann's Warehouse Puppet Lab, where I co-created and performed Evolution #9 with designer and puppeteer Marte Johanne Ekhougen. And since 2014 I have been at work on several classical plays with my company Uncommon Pocketwatch.

While the plays I’ve directed run the gamut in terms of theatrical vocabulary (documentary theater, memoir, puppetry, devised work, canonized classics), they are unified by several keen interests of mine. I am acutely interested in stories where the characters inner life, the landscape of their interiority, their soul is the prime driver of action. I am consistently drawn to stories with a vivid sense of place, a rich environment which informs the action. I crave work with expressive language and a sense of music. I value work that fosters intimacy between the performer and her audience. And I am preoccupied with form arising from content.

Press for A Number

“A stunning, thought-provoking production….Baldi, her actors, and a crack design team come together on the same page to create an unsettlingly recognizable world….though this fine production demands much, it’s similarly rich with rewards.” - Broadstreet Review

“an intense, engrossing production…Eliza Baldi’s direction isolates the pair in a cell-like room, bare but for carpet, a small table, and a leather recliner…Very little action happens onstage, yet Darrow and Dossett punctuate each scene with moments of crippling intensity.” - Philadelphia Inquirer

“Director Eliza Baldi keeps the play crisp without racing.  It is beautifully paced.  She gives her actors the freedom to create and the audience is the richer for it.” - Philly Life & Culture