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Theatre, Film and TV
Kat Buckle
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Emma
Dennis-Edwards
Writer and actor
Emma Dennis-Edwards is a Writer/Performer of Jamaican and Trinidadian heritage.
For stage, Emma has been a participant at Royal Court, Soho Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith and Oval House writers programmes. Plays include Funeral Flowers which was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018 and won the Scotsman’s Fringe First Award and the Filipa Bragança award for best female solo performance. It went on to tour venues across London. Her play Bricks was developed on the Old Vic 12 scheme and was shortlisted for the Alfred Fogan Award.
For TV, Emma is writing an episode of Champion (Candiace Carty-Williams' new show for BBC) and is in a writersroom for a UKTV/AMC show. Alongside her episodic writing Emma is developing original projects with The Forge, Moonage and Balloon. She was part of the BBC Writers Academy with John Yorke and also wrote a pilot as part of the BBC Drama room.
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Theatre, Film and TV
Kat Buckle
+44 (0)20 7393 4377
Email Kat Buckle
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Television
Writer & Creator
Writer
Theatre
Writer & Creator
Emma was chosen as one of The Old Vic 12 which aims to nurture and develop the next generation of theatre practitioners through offering access and insights into theatre-making, mentoring from industry experts, delivering masterclasses to other emerging artists, and collaborating with each other to create brand new work.
The Pleasance, Edinburgh, Bunker Theatre, The Roundhouse, Bernie Grant Arts Centre and Hackney Empire Studio
An original theatre commission for the Arcola Theatre's East Side Stories strand.