Director

I direct for stage and live performance, screen, audio and interactive. I also have extensive experience as a facilitator, speaker and mentor.

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.

I direct actors, presenters and contributors across scripted, factual and R&D.

I am skilled at working with professionals, non-professionals, children and people with learning disabilities and access needs.

I have a strong track record of working inclusively and I draw on my life and professional experience, alongside my earlier training and work as a professional actor, to direct with clarity, warmth and purpose.

Directing for British Youth Opera

Directing Credits

Leeds Opera Festival 2024 – Guest Artistic Director
BYO Hub – Suite of approx 70 videos – British Youth Opera
My DG – Audio – The Dumping Ground – BBC
Ethel’s Hallowed Hall of Magical Fame – Screen – The Worst Witch – BBC/Netflix/ZDF
The Shakespeare Project – Theatre – Emma Hill, Writes
Chip Shop: The Musical Trailer – Emma Hill, Writes, Freedom Studios, Yorkshire Festival, Octagon Theatre Bolton
Each Day I Live – Theatre – Dark Horse Theatre
Crybaby – Short Film – Z-arts & BBC Performing Arts Fund Fellowship
Bedtime Live – Digital and Interactive – IVCA Clarion Gold Award – Channel 4/Twofour
The 30 Minute Merchant (of Venice) – Theatre – Wilderness of Monkeys
Selfies – Theatre – Ambassador Youth Theatre
Snakebite (Assistant Director) – Theatre – Dark Horse Theatre
RTYDS – Assistant Director Training – Dark Horse Theatre

Facilitating, Mentoring & Speaking

Mentor – Matthew Hale Award Winner – New Writing North
Speaker, facilitator & panel guest – New Writing North
Workshop leader and facilitator – Royal Exchange Theatre
Workshop facilitator – Right Up our Street
Workshop facilitator – Creative People & Places
Tutor, facilitator & young people’s director – Lawrence Batley Theatre
Workshop facilitator – Octagon Theatre Bolton
Workshop facilitator – Freedom Studios
Workshop facilitator – Raise the Youth
Workshop facilitator – YMCA
Young people’s facilitator – Ambassador Theatre Group (Stoke Regent Theatre)
Workshop facilitator – Emma Hill, Writes
Coach and mentor – BBC
Coaching Training – BBC
Honest Conversations training – BBC

Acting

I trained and worked as an actor from 2002-2011. I worked in theatre, youth outreach and training, short and feature films. I have a wide range of acting experience to draw on when working with actors as a director.