Sarah Ellis is Digital Producer at the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 2013 she worked on the Midsummer Night’s Dreaming project - a collaboration with Google’s Creative Lab that explored the performance of the play in real-time live and online.  Prior to this, in 2012, she produced the online project for the World Shakespeare FestivalmyShakespeare which searches for Shakespeare's digital heartbeat through a data aggregator called Banquo. It searches for references of Shakespeare and his plays through Twitter, Flickr and Ebay. myShakespeare includes a series of think pieces submitted by people from around the world and an international commissioning programme featuring artists from a variety of art forms - Central Saint Martins, Brendan Dawes, Tim Etchells, Will Power, Kate Tempest, Tom Uglow and Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa. The site is introduced  by Tim Minchin. Previously she was Head of Creative Programmes at the Albany Theatre and from 2004 she worked for Apples & Snakes where she managed the national creative programme and digital strategy for the organization. She has produced work with the Old Vic Tunnels, Battersea Arts Centre, Birmingham REP, Contact, Freeword, Improbable, Southbank Centre, Soho Theatre, and Shunt. Her producing credits include Hinterland a poem you can play around the city by Ross Sutherland and Hide & Seek supported by the Jerwood Foundation and Forest Fringe, Hannah Ringham’s Free Show (bring money) by Glen Neath for the British Council Showcase 2011, Adelaide Road a digital participatory poetry residency for Royal Shakespeare Company, London Poetry Game for Hide & Seek, My Place Or Yours an online residency commissioning poets from across the country for Apples & Snakes, Whenever I Get Blown Up I Think Of You by Molly Naylor which was adapted for BBC Radio 4, Whistle by Martin Figura shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award and If I Cover My Nose You Can't See Me by Polarbear.