Emma Hill, Writes

  • Chip Shop – The Musical
  • Opera Rave feat. Carmen
  • The Shakespeare Project
  • Maddie Wakeling dancing with her hair flying in Roadside
    Roadside
Emma Hill with a copy of her book, Baby Girl

I’m Emma Hill

I create and stage musical storytelling productions.

I have built a three-decade career across the arts and media as a writer, director and producer. My work has won multiple awards.

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Projects

Baby Girl

Teen mum, Missie, fights to thrive and survive, by writing songs to her daughter’s nursery rhymes playlist.

The musical theatre adaptation of my multi award-winning young adult novel.

In development

Darren Southworth as Gram in Chip Shop - The Musical, gliding on a buffet trolley

Chip Shop – The Musical

Fish, chips and beats.

A site-specific show that blends Yorkshire brass with UK grime and tells a moving story of intergenerational friendship.

Fish & chips served before the show!

Opera Rave feat. Carmen

Bizet’s Carmen reimagined to a club-inspired backdrop and beats.

Presented at Leeds Opera Festival, as Guest Artistic Director.

The Shakespeare Project

Beats, British Sign Language and The Bard.

A cross-displinary team of actors, MCs and music speclialists create a new way of performing Shakespeare.

Cover of Baby Girl showing the back silhouette of a young woman, holding a microphone in the air, with a baby on her hip

Baby Girl – The Novel

My multi award-winning, young adult novel, about teen mum, Missie, and her journey through young parenthood and making music.

Leeds Opera Story

A mini opera libretto, commissioned by Northern Opera Group.

Awards

Emma Hill standing up, watching and directing the Opera Rave R&D
  • Northern Writers’ Award
  • BAFTA Nomination
  • Broadcast Digital Award
  • Royal Television Society Award Nomination
  • BBC Performing Arts Fund Fellowship
  • Stage One Bursary
  • Faber & Faber FAB Prize Commendation
  • Shelagh Delaney Prize shortlisted
  • Alternarratives Prize shortlisted

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More Projects & Work

Maddie Wakeling with her arms aloft in front of the moon on the set of Roadside
Roadside by Maddie Wakeling – Producer
A small filming set-up in a studio, against a white screen. Emma Hill is looking at the monitor. Anna Patalong is being filmed and Chris Forshaw is operating the camera.
British Youth Opera, Director & Producer
The Birth of Venus, BBC – Producer
Gone, BBC – Producer
After The DG (Bailey) – Producer & Writer
After The DG (Elektra) – Producer
Afterwords – Writer
A scene from Crybaby by Emma Hill
Crybaby – Writer & Director
Ethel’s Hallowed Hall – Director & Producer
Zapchat, BBC –
Senior Producer
The Joseph & Taz Files, BBC – Producer
Sasha’s Meeting, BBC – Producer
Each Day I Live, Dark Horse – Writer & Director

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