Emily Jenkins

Emily is a winner of the prestigious Fringe First Award for her play Rainbow. She has since written plays with Paines Plough, Traverse Theatre and attended the Royal Court Young Writers and Studio Writers programmes. Emily is also a text coach and Shakespeare practitioner working at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. Her productions for Shakespeare’s Globe include The Tempest (Dir. Jeremy Herrin), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Dir. Dominic Dromgoole) and King Lear (Dir. Bill Buckhurst). She also teaches at LAMDA and has worked as text coach for the National Youth Theatre company. Productions as text and voice coach include Romeo and Juliet for the Ambassadors Theatre (Dir. Katy Hewitt) and The Tempest for Royal & Derngate (Dir. Caroline Steinbeis). As a director her work includes: Vinegar Tom (Royal and Derngate Theatre), Merry Wives of Windsor (Royal and Derngate studio), KCS (Southwark Playhouse), Rainbow (FRINGE FIRST AWARD WINNER Zoo Southside), Mojo Mickybo (Old Red Lion) and Fame (The Northcott Theatre).