Emily Ingram is a theatre and film-maker best known for work as a writer, director and producer. Ingram also works as a production manager and workshop leader, and as a facilitator for digital theatre projects.
Directing credits include work for the Traverse Theatre (Tam O’Shanter: Tales And Whisky and The Grandmothers Grimm, 2023) and Southwark Playhouse London (The Grandmothers Grimm, 2019); digital theatre productions for the National Theatre Of Scotland (Squeezy Yogurt, 2020) and Hopscotch Theatre (The Unseen Child) and international digital theatre project The Show Must Go Online (2020-2021). Other directing credits include touring work such as Sherlock Holmes: The Final Reckoning (Twisted Thistle, 2019), and Dead White Anarchists (Paul Case Spoken Word, 2020).
Work as a playwright includes the award-winning, critically-acclaimed play The Grandmothers Grimm, which has toured across the UK and been staged at the National Women’s Theatre Festival in the USA, where it won Best Script Award. Other work as a playwright includes adaptations such as Virginia Woolf's Orlando and Aristophanes' The Birds. Ingram’s fairy tale short film script Cursed As Long As She Lived was commissioned, produced and broadcast by Peripeteia Theatre Company in 2022.
Industry training includes a Snapshot Placement at the Young Vic and training and development as part of Birds Of Paradise Theatre’s Young Artists scheme and the Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh’s prestigious L20 artist attachment scheme. Ingram was mentored as a playwright in 2020-2021 via the Playwright’s Studio Scotland and Birds Of Paradise mentoring award.