Emily
Ling Williams

Emily is currently a Resident Director at the Almeida Theatre and is part of the Fresh Direction group at the Young Vic. She was previously the Trainee Director at Paines Plough where she directed Turbines which premiered at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama before transferring to the Gate Theatre. As an assistant/associate director she has worked at Chichester Festival Theatre, NT Studio, Soho Theatre, Arcola Theatre and Paines Plough most recently assisted Yaël Farber on Blood Wedding at the Young Vic. Emily has also completed the Soho Theatre Writers Lab and Play-Writing for Directors with Leo Butler at the Young Vic and is currently attached to co-direct a project with Metal Rabbit Productions.

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Theatre

Director 

Buried Kingdom
Writer Kim Ho

Staged reading

Yellow Earth/ Tristan Bates Theatre
Yellow Earth Academy Showcase

Assorted Dialogues

Yellow Earth
Preach
Writer Henry Devas
Rose Bruford / Hoxton Hall
Turbines
Writer Sarah McDonald-Hughes
Paines Plough / RWCMD / Gate Theatre
Lungs (Extract)
Writer Duncan Macmillan
The Young Vic

Assistant Director 

Blood Wedding
Director Yaël Farber
Writer Federico García Lorca, adapted by Marina Carr
Young Vic
The Meeting
Director Natalie Abrahami
Writer Charlotte Jones
Chichester Festival Theatre
The Chalk Garden
Director Alan Strachan
Writer Enid Bagnold
Chichester Festival Theatre
Out Of Love
Director James Grieve
Writer Elinor Cook
Paines Plough / Orange Tree / Theatr Clywd
Black Mountain
Director James Grieve
Writer Brad Birch
Paines Plough / Orange Tree / Theatr Clywd
How To Be A Kid
Director James Grieve
Writer Sarah McDonald-Hughes
Paines Plough / Orange Tree / Theatr Clwyd
The Island Nation
Director Ria Parry
Writer Christine Bacon
Arcola Theatre