Emma Williams
Emma is a writer and theatre director with over twenty years’ experience. She creates performances for diverse audiences working collaboratively across art forms. Her roles range from Director, facilitator dramaturge and writer. She has regular co-created shows for Pickled Image “Wolf Tales” “Shop of Little Horrors “and “Woodland Tales” for Green Ginger ‘Intronauts”and Vic Llewelyn & Kid Carpet “The Castle Builder “and “A Little Death”. Touring productions include “Baba’s Song” by In Our Hands and “We are Lightening by Sam Halmarack and Joseph O’Farrell. She has directed in house productions for The Tobacco Factory Theatres, Bath Theatre Royal, and The Bristol Old Vic. She has developed outdoor performances for Activate, Strike A light, Cheltenham Literary Festival, Dorset Wildlife Trust and National Theatre of Wales.
Her writing credits include “The Desert Daydreamer” for Royal Welsh College of Music and drama, “The Snow Queen” and “Pinocchio” for Strike a Light and “The Kings” for Popelie Theatre company. Outdoor productions include The Butterfly Lady for Dorset AONB and The Kingcombes Travelling Show for Dorset Wildlife trust.
She is passionate about scripts that respond to physical locations and historical narratives.
Her writing credits include “The Desert Daydreamer” for Royal Welsh College of Music and drama, “The Snow Queen” and “Pinocchio” for Strike a Light and “The Kings” for Popelie Theatre company. Outdoor productions include The Butterfly Lady for Dorset AONB and The Kingcombes Travelling Show for Dorset Wildlife trust.
She is passionate about scripts that respond to physical locations and historical narratives.
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2020 Projects
Writer in residence for A Poetic City at Red Lodge Museum
A Poetic City is a multi-partner, city-wide programme led by Bristol Cultural Development Partnership. In September 2020 Emma worked at The Red lodge Museum as writer-in-residence . She researched the lives of girls that attended Mary Carpenters reform school in the late 1800’s. This Culminated in a podcast The Wicked Girls of Red Lodge
soundcloud.com/bristolmuseums/the-wicked-girls-of-red-lodge
www.ideasfestival.co.uk/blog/a-poetic-city/red-lodge-research/
Commissioned writer for “Alternative endings” Wassail Theatre company.
Emma collaborated on a script for Wassail Theatre company where the societal and political impact of covid 19 were explored. Directed by Emma Bettridge it will be performed as a script reading before touring in 2021.
https://www.wassailtheatre.co.uk/about-us
Co-Writer and co-presenter of podcast series Fill In the Gaps, for In Our Hands theatre company.
Emma co-presented a series of podcasts with Kim Heron and Jannah Warlow from In Our Hands Theatre Company. They explored the creative challenges facing a theatre company in the summer of 2020 where gaps between us were compulsory.
https://www.inourhandstheatre.org/
Past projects
A Poetic City is a multi-partner, city-wide programme led by Bristol Cultural Development Partnership. In September 2020 Emma worked at The Red lodge Museum as writer-in-residence . She researched the lives of girls that attended Mary Carpenters reform school in the late 1800’s. This Culminated in a podcast The Wicked Girls of Red Lodge
soundcloud.com/bristolmuseums/the-wicked-girls-of-red-lodge
www.ideasfestival.co.uk/blog/a-poetic-city/red-lodge-research/
Commissioned writer for “Alternative endings” Wassail Theatre company.
Emma collaborated on a script for Wassail Theatre company where the societal and political impact of covid 19 were explored. Directed by Emma Bettridge it will be performed as a script reading before touring in 2021.
https://www.wassailtheatre.co.uk/about-us
Co-Writer and co-presenter of podcast series Fill In the Gaps, for In Our Hands theatre company.
Emma co-presented a series of podcasts with Kim Heron and Jannah Warlow from In Our Hands Theatre Company. They explored the creative challenges facing a theatre company in the summer of 2020 where gaps between us were compulsory.
https://www.inourhandstheatre.org/
Past projects
Gladys and the Electric Palace
The Kingcombe Traveling Show
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Pinnocchio/ Williams and Williams
The Butterfly Lady
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