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Emily directed A Playlist for the Revolution by AJ Yi at The Bush Theatre this year for which she won The Stage Debut Award for Best Director. A Playlist for The Revolution was chosen as one of the Stage’s Top 50 shows of 2023.

Other directing credits include Angus Harrison’s Polko at Paines Plough’s Roundabout, The Full Works, The Key Workers Cycle by Josh Elliott at the Almeida, text me when you’re home by Zia Ahmed as part of Five Plays at the Young Vic and Wasted by Chanel Fernandes and Kane Feagan for the Lyric Hammersmith’s Evolution Festival.

She has also directed shows at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, LAMDA and Rose Bruford. As an associate/ assistant director she has worked at the Almeida, Headlong, Young Vic, Chichester Festival Theatre, Arcola and Paines Plough.

Emily has also completed the Soho Theatre Writers Lab and has an MSc in International Politics from SOAS.

She is currently attached to direct an adaptation of the best-selling children’s book Sam Wu Is Not Afraid of Ghosts for Polka Theatre.