Emily is a writer for stage and screen motivated by a desire to tell psychologically complex female driven narratives. Drawn to suburban satires that unravel into psychological thrillers, Emily’s stories delve into dark currents beneath calm surfaces. Emily has three plays currently in development: Deep Water (an ensemble psychological thriller set on the Central Coast Peninsular centred around a missing woman); Kind of People (a four hander pressure cooker about exploitation and neglect); and Ravenous Beast (a thriller in which a woman rescues a dog from an abusive home as her own relationship plunges her into deeper and deeper danger). Emily also has a full length screenplay Nothing Is in development – a psychological drama about a successful actor forced to confront the fact that her adored mentor is a sexual predator – and the outline for a six part episodic The End – an existential dark comedy about the unlikely friendship between two misfits as they navigate death and grief.

In 2022 Emily was commissioned to write Deep Water by The Art House Wyong and Create NSW and received a second grant in 2023 for further development. Funding pending, Emily plans to premier Deep Water on stage in 2026.Emily is also adapting Deep Water into a six part television episodic.

With 20 years experience as an actor, Emily has written and performed multiple solo shows, winning a Green Room Award for Hello You, and the Melbourne Fringe Tiki Tour Ready Award and NZ Fringe Best Solo Show Award for her dark comedy Cannonball. Since then Emily has written three other one act plays: Pet (2014); Backwards (2015) and The Thick of It (2016).

Emily is also a teaching artist and director for NIDA Open and Darlo Drama, and has worked with Melbourne Theatre Company, Malthouse, Arena Theatre Company, Melbourne Playback Theatre Company, First Impressions Youth Theatre, The Art House Wyong and Options Theatre Company. Currently completing her Masters in Dramatic Writing at NIDA, Emily has a BA with Honours in Theatre and Film from UNSW.