ELIZABETH HONAN

CREATIVE DIRECTOR/CHOREOGRAPHER

Elizabeth Honan, Creative Director & Choreographer, has firmly established herself as one of the UK’s most respected creative forces in the industry with over 18 years’ experience. Her vast portfolio spans across Television, Commercials, Music Videos and hugely successful high-profile stadium & arena tours for No. 1 artists, making her a sought after visionary and campaign creator.

Elizabeth has a strong portfolio of primetime Entertainment TV Shows for both the BBC and ITV. She works on the UK’s favourite dance show Strictly Come Dancing, creating one off, spectacular group performances with the professional dancers from the show and Couple’s choice performances. In 2022 both her performances for Fleur and Vito and Helen and Gorka received the highest score possible 40 points and vast amounts of publicity. In 2019 her ‘Met Gala’ creative and choreography was named as ‘One of the best openings in Strictly Come Dancing’s history’ and her performances have continued to receive rave reviews. 

Elizabeth has a long-standing role as Britain’s Got Talent’s Creative Director, which won a BAFTA in 2018 and 2019.

Elizabeth was personally Bafta nominated for her work as Creative Director on The Masked Singer the outrageously extraordinary singing competition which got the whole nation talking. She was thrilled to also film the first and second series of ‘The Masked Dancer’, the spin-off show to the highly successful Singer version.

Elizabeth is also Creative Director for ITV’s Saturday night primetime spectacular Starstruck with Adam Lambert, Shania Twain, Beverley Knight and Jason Manford alongside the shows presenter Olly Murs.

Elizabeth has loved working as Creative Director with the WORLD OF WONDER team on their incredible Drag Queen extravaganza for Paramount ‘Queen of the Universe’

Elizabeth has been the Show Producer and Creative Director of Capital FM’s epic concerts, ‘Capital’s Summertime Ball’ live at Wembley Stadium and ‘Capital's Jingle Bell Ball’ live at the O2 Arena for over a decade. These yearly events feature the biggest music artists in the world and are sure sell-out spectaculars. As well as the 35 stadium and arena concerts for Capital, Elizabeth has created and choreographed over 30 individual tours for some of the biggest names in pop music and is also Show Producer of Classic FM Live at The Royal Albert Hall. 

Elizabeth has created and choreographed four stunning Brits performances; Girls Aloud - The Promise, Cheryl - Fight For This Love, Little Mix - Black Magic and Little Mix – Shout Out To My Ex. Both Little Mix performances were announced as runner up and winner of the greatest Brits performance, while Girls Aloud and Cheryl's were both in the top ten greatest Brits performances of all time.

Artists that Elizabeth has worked with include Little Mix, Girls Aloud, Cheryl, One Direction, Olly Murs, Shania Twain, JLS, Robin Thicke, Justin Timberlake, to name a few. These have often been long standing relationships that Elizabeth is very proud of, which lead to working on sell-out tours or massive one-off memorable TV performances.