Emma is an award-winning playwright from East Anglia whose plays have toured the UK.
Her first play Patterns won the Michael Ross Award from RADA for the Academy’s Best New Play and has since gone on to be shortlisted for Theatre503’s International Playwriting Prize and secured her spots on development programmes with the Mercury Theatre, National Student Drama Festival, BFI, Soho Theatre, Boundless Theatre and a Harold Hyam Wingate Scholarship for the Arvon Foundation.
In 2023, her professional debut I Really Do Think This Will Change Your Life was selected as the Mercury Theatre’s inaugural Page to Stage Original and opened to critical acclaim. In 2024, it was selected as one of Pleasance's Edinburgh National Partnership productions where it received a wealth of 4 and 5 star reviews. The production was listed in Pick of the Fringe lists for Playbill, The Scotsman, Mervyn Stutter and Pleasance as well as being shortlisted for The Stage Innovation Award and Stagey Place Awards. It is now being adapted for screen.
Emma also works extensively in Film and Television. She's an experienced HETV Assistant Director working on major titles such as The Gentlemen, Black Mirror and The Diplomat. Her screenwriting has been shortlisted for the BBC Writersroom and ITV Original Voices as well as being developed with the BFI's Film Development Hub. Her short poetry film You Told Us To Talk About the Weather, starring Michael Sheen, was selected for BBC Introducing.
She is now developing several new projects with the support Attic Theatre, Landmark Theatres and New Perspectives.
Her first play Patterns won the Michael Ross Award from RADA for the Academy’s Best New Play and has since gone on to be shortlisted for Theatre503’s International Playwriting Prize and secured her spots on development programmes with the Mercury Theatre, National Student Drama Festival, BFI, Soho Theatre, Boundless Theatre and a Harold Hyam Wingate Scholarship for the Arvon Foundation.
In 2023, her professional debut I Really Do Think This Will Change Your Life was selected as the Mercury Theatre’s inaugural Page to Stage Original and opened to critical acclaim. In 2024, it was selected as one of Pleasance's Edinburgh National Partnership productions where it received a wealth of 4 and 5 star reviews. The production was listed in Pick of the Fringe lists for Playbill, The Scotsman, Mervyn Stutter and Pleasance as well as being shortlisted for The Stage Innovation Award and Stagey Place Awards. It is now being adapted for screen.
Emma also works extensively in Film and Television. She's an experienced HETV Assistant Director working on major titles such as The Gentlemen, Black Mirror and The Diplomat. Her screenwriting has been shortlisted for the BBC Writersroom and ITV Original Voices as well as being developed with the BFI's Film Development Hub. Her short poetry film You Told Us To Talk About the Weather, starring Michael Sheen, was selected for BBC Introducing.
She is now developing several new projects with the support Attic Theatre, Landmark Theatres and New Perspectives.
