Emma is a British playwright, now living in Philadelphia. She has an MA in Creative and Critical Writing and was the founding producing artistic director of Tiny Dynamite for which she was a winner of the Knight Arts Challenge and received a Pew Center for Arts & Heritage award for her production of Perfect Blue.

Her plays have been selected, developed, read or performed at The Pittsburgh Public Theatre, PlayPenn Conference, People's Light & Theatre, Gloucester Stage, PCPA, Purple Rose Theatre, Philadelphia Women’s Theatre Festival, Spooky Action Theatre Company, Miranda Theatre Company NYC, Wordsmyth Theater, Vivid Stage, Panndora Productions, and Pomona College. She was the winner of The Pittsburgh Public Theater’s inaugural new play competition in 2021. Most recently she was a runner up for the Ambassador Theatre Group Playwriting Prize with Platform Presents and a finalist for the Women's Prize for Playwriting. She has been a finalist and a semi-finalist for The O'Neill New Play Conference, Seven devils Playwright conference, Headwaters at Creede Rep, Kitchen Dog’s New Works Festival, Henley Rose New Play Competition, Blue Ink Award with the American Blues Theater, The Princess Grace Award, Normal Ave Nap Series (2023), a semi-finalist for Premiere Stages at Keane, Ashland New Plays and The Bay Area Playwrights Festival She was in the top 100 for the Verity Bargate Award at The Soho Theatre, UK, and on the short list for The International Playwriting Award with Theatre 503, UK and The Papatango New Writing Award. Her Poetry has been published by Willowdown Books (Poems from the Lockdown) and Indolent Books (What Rough Beast). More at www.britishemma.com.