[1][2] He attended Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn[citation needed] before studying English and Drama at University of Bristol, where he was a contemporary of Sarah Kane, Simon Pegg, and David Greig,[3] graduating in 1992.
[4] After graduating university, Eatough relocated to Glasgow and co-founded theatre company Suspect Culture with playwright David Greig and composer Nick Powell.
[8] In 2012, Eatough and visual artist Graham Fagen created The Making of Us, a work presented as a live filmic installation[9] at Glasgow's Tramway performance centre, and later released as a film.
[3][12] Eatough collaborated with conceptual artist Simon Starling on ‘At Twilight: A play for two actors, three musicians, one dancer, eight masks (and a donkey costume)’, a production commissioned by The Common Guild in 2016.
[8] Eatough directed an adaptation of Naoki Higashida's autobiographical novel The Reason I Jump, which was produced by the National Theatre of Scotland and will be performed at the Children's Wood and North Kelvin Meadow in Glasgow in June 2018.