Graduate of The Western Australian Academy of the Performing Arts and The Neighborhood Playhouse, NY.
Associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC).
Ensemble Theatre Sandra Bates Director’s Award 2023
Theatre work includes Einstein and Mileva (World Premiere at Theatre Row, NY), Blithe Spirit (nominated Best Director/Best Play, Broadway World Regional Awards), (When We Were Young and Unafraid (nominated Best Director/Best Play, Broadway World Regional Awards), Peter and The Starcatcher (The Naples Players, nominated for Best Director of a Musical, Broadway World Regional Awards), Silent Sky (The Naples Players, Naples Florida Weekly Top Pick), Hollywood, Hollywood (Midtown International Theatre Festival, nominated for Best Direction and Best Choreography), Yellowpants (SOLOCOM at The Pit, NY), America (Downtown Urban Theatre Festival, winner of Best Audience Award), C10 Plays (Collective NY), The Tempest: Remixed (Teatro Heckscher, NY), A Sense of Purpose On Sunday’s (IO Myers Theatre at UNSW, Aust), Par amnesia (Seymour Centre with One Extra Dance, Aust), The Magic Flute (Talent Unlimited), Oklahoma and Mame (Stagedoor Manor). She is Associate Director on Maggie, A New Musical, most recently seen at Goodspeed Musicals, CT. She served as Assistant Director on Suddenly Last Summer, Midnight Murder at Hamlington Hall and Uncle Vanya at Ensemble Theatre, Sydney.
Rehearsals for Peter and the Starcatcher (NAPLES, FL)
Assistant director to Mark Kilmurry on Midnight Murder at Hamlington Hall (SYDNEY)
Emma is co-writer and director of 100 Years of the History of Dance The show toured regional Australian in 2019/21, was a Western Australian Critics Choice winner at Fringe World Festival 2020 in Perth, WA and has had runs in Brisbane at The Powerhouse (2019) and La Boite Theatre Company (2021).
Her short film The Joneses has played in festivals in the USA and Europe. In 2020 she directed Holiday’s From The Heart, a virtual performance and fundraising program produced by Bravehearts For Broadway, streamed on Playbill.com for The Actors Fund. She co-wrote and co-directed the short film 13 (Awarded Best Screenplay and nominated for Best Direction in Sparrow Film Project). She directed and produced the web series Kate Plus Date in collaboration with Martian New Media, was associate producer for the short film Blink: The Observer (Backslash Bomb Productions), producer on HIV and AIDS: Let’s keep talking PSA (GLAAD), First AD on short film Corn Bread and Bad Luck (Rocky from Da Bronx Productions) and for feature film Lighthouse Unmanned (LU Productions). She is co-creator of the micro series Historgrams.
As a teaching artist Emma has produced, directed and performed in The Collective NY’s C:10 To Go, a touring production of short plays and workshops for schools and colleges, taken to Coastal Carolina University in 2017. In 2020 she was choreographer of Pride and Prejudice for KidzAct at The Naples Players (Best Virtual Performance, Broadway World Regional Awards). For several years she was a director, choreographer and teacher for The Papermill Playhouse Conservatory and Intensive Summer Programs and a guest choreographer for The Papermill Playhouse Show Choir. She has taught dance for Rutgers-RSAC, directed for Ponoma College, CA, was guest director/choreographer for UNSW Dance and Drama Dept. , StageDoor Manor, New England Music Camp and NIDA Open among other engagements.
Rehearsals for Hollywood, Hollywood (NYC)
1st workshop for 100 Years of the History of Dance (NYC)
Up coming projects:
Pride and Prejudice, an adaptation by Kate Hamill at The Old Fitz, Sydney.
Sound of Siren by Maximilian Gill, an audio podcast produced by The Artist Experiment, NYC (planned release late 2024)
The Henry Sessions, short film written by Emma and Christian Hurtado Pierson, directed by Emma (in post production)
Chicken, short film written and directed by Emma (in post production)