Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Eleanor Evans (1893 20 December 1969) was a Welsh actress, singer and stage director. She performed in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas for over a span of more than 20 years with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. In 1949, she was appointed as the company's Stage Director and Director of Productions, continuing in those positions until 1953, but she proved to be unpopular with actors whom she directed because of her inflexibility and strict devotion to the traditional staging and comic business that had been used by the company for decades. Evans was born in Henllan, Denbighshire. The younger daughter of John Evans, a veterinarian who specialised in gelding horses, she had three brothers. Her sister was the opera singer Laura Evans-Williams.