Training: MFA Theatre Directing, Birkbeck & Young Director at Royal Exchange Theatre.

Associate, Resident and Assistant Director credits: Make It Happen (National Theatre of Scotland, Dundee Rep, Edinburgh International Festival); The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Ambassadors Theatre, West End); RUM (UK Tour); The History Boys (Theatre Royal Bath & UK Tour); Witness for the Prosecution (London County Hall); A Christmas Carol (Nottingham Playhouse, Alexandra Palace); Roman Holiday (Theatre Royal Bath); West Side Story (Curve); My Beautiful Laundrette (Curve & UK Tour); The Entertainer (Curve); Mixtape (Royal Exchange Theatre). 

Director credits: The Fix (Rose Bruford MTLab); Songs and Stories from the Atomic Town (Theatre by the Lake); Maple Hall (Arts Ed Project); All the Boggles of Derwentwater (Theatre by the Lake); Not Something Other People Do (Curve Online); LE3 Writers’ Showcase (Upstairs at the Western); The Best Play Ever (Delicious Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe); Little Shop of Horrors (Delicious Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe). 

Emily co-runs theatre and audio company Obscura - their musical A Shanty for an Atomic Town was runner-up for the Pleasance Charlie Hartill Fund & shortlisted for the Untapped Award in 2022. Emily was 1 of 20 directors longlisted for the 2024 JMK Award and Director/Theatre Maker Nominee for the 2021 Evening Standard Future Theatre Fund.