Profile: Eleanor Zonik

Loft credits (click a play title to view details)

• Director, Relatively Speaking (1969)
• Director, His Excellency (1967)
• Director, Odd Man In (1966)
• Director, Rattle of a Simple Man (1966)
• Lady Cartmichael, Caught Napping (1966)
• Director, The Lady’s Not for Burning (1965)
• Director, The Amorous Prawn (1963)
• Director, The Country Wife (1961)
• Director, One More River (1961)
• Director, The Flowerin’ of the Grass (1960)
• Director, The Deep Blue Sea (1960)
• Miss Holroyd, Bell, Book and Candle (1959)
• Director, The Love of Four Colonels (1959)
• Director, Saturday’s Bread (1958)
• Red Queen, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (1958)
• Director, Mine Hostess (1956)
• Director, Circle of Love (1956)
• The Duchess of Umbrage, The Puppet Prince (1956)
• Director, Busman’s Honeymoon (1955)
• Mrs Muriven, The River Line (1954)
• Director, Daphne Laureola (1953)
• Director, The Sulky Fire (1953)
• Director, Accent on Youth (1951)
• Lady Caroline Smith, The Chiltern Hundreds (1950)
• Director, The Wheels Go Round (1949)
• Woman of Canterbury, Murder in the Cathedral (1948)
• Karen Selby, The Flashing Stream (1947)
• Rowena Marriott, Quiet Weekend (1947)

Also credited as

Eleanor Glaser

Notes

Eleanor Zonik, formerly Glaser, née Farrington, passed away on 24 September 2013 aged 95.

Born in West Didsbury in Lancashire, Eleanor moved to Wellesbourne in 1931 aged 13. She spent the Second World War years driving supplies to military personnel based in the area and met her first husband while delivering to the Czech Free Army stationed in the village.

After Eleanor’s first marriage ended, she took up writing as a hobby – a passion which became her lifelong career. As a playwright, her greatest success was having her work Circle of Love directed by Stephen Joseph as the opening production at his theatre in Scarborough. A teacher of drama, elocution and a speech therapist at schools in Stratford and Warwick, Eleanor had licentiates from the Royal Academy of Music and the Guildhall School of Music in the drama section.

Eleanor moved to Harbury when she married her second husband Louis Zonik, a Hungarian refugee, in 1961. They were married for 44 years until his death in 2005. Immersed in village life, Eleanor lived alone until she was 91 and spent her final years at the Boston Lodge for the Deaf and Blind in Coventry.

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