Emma Johns

Emma is an emerging queer Australian director and dramaturg who is passionate about new Australian work that highlights everyday stories in unique and playful ways.

While completing her Bachelor of Arts (Distinction) with a double major in Indigenous Studies and Theatre and Performance Studies at the University of New South Wales, she was active in student theatre across Sydney. Before beginning the course, she worked at The Scots College Senior School as the acting Master in Charge of Drama, directing highly successful productions that allowed her to foster a new generation of theatre makers.

Emma is inspired by theatre that refuses to follow conventions and seeks to push the art form.

How do you make a play? Who decides what stories are important? What is left when everything else is gone? Where do you go when everyone has given up on you? How do you learn to have conviction in yourself?

Through a ridiculous satirisation of a convict play, Zoey Dawson explores the human desire to escape yourself and the joy connected to finding your way back.

As emerging artists about to step into the great big wide world outside NIDA, this play reminds us to stay true to ourselves, the art we want to make, and when in doubt, laugh.

– Emma Johns

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Please be advised there will be a five-minute lockout at the start of the show. This performance contains coarse language, gunshots and sudden loud noises, violence and adult themes, drug use, strobe lighting, and haze and smoking effects.