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Emily Ingram

Director Stage Manager Writer

[she/her/ey/em]
I am an Edinburgh and London based freelance director, writer, stage manager, producer and arts administrator. I am passionate about directing work which tells forgotten stories and challenges perceptions of disability.

Credits

Producer, Year Long Shakespeare Project, Shakespeare North Playhouse/Ben Crystal, Upcoming

Assistant Director, How To Be Both, Lyceum Festival Theatre/L20, Upcoming

Stage Manager, Puss 'n' Boots, Hopscotch Theatre, 2021

Assistant Director, SOPHIA, Pitlochry Festival Theatre/Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, radio play, 2021

Digital Consultant, THE UNSEEN CHILD, Hopscotch Theatre/Hannah Lavery, 2021

Director, THE GRANDMOTHERS GRIMM, Some Kind of Theatre, Scotland Tour
- Nominated for the SETA awards

Director, Scenes For Survival: SQUEEZY YOGURT, BBC / National Theatre of Scotland, digital theatre, 2020

Director, MACBETH, Edinburgh Acting School Performance Course, 2020

Director, BLACK COMEDY, Edinburgh Acting School Performance Course, 2020

Director, THE REAL INSPECTOR HOUND, Edinburgh Acting School Performance Course, 2020

Director, PICKMAN'S MODEL, Posterous Productions, Edinburgh Horror Festival Online, digital theatre, 2020

Associate Director, THE SHOW MUST GO ONLINE [40 episodes], digital theatre, 2020
- 2 x OnComm Award Winner, OneOff Award
- Stage Awards nominated

Director, DEAD WHITE ANARCHISTS, Paul Case Spoken Word, Tour [cancelled due to COVID], 2020

Director & Writer, THE SPRITE IN THE DOLLS HOUSE, Some Kind of Theatre, Palace of Holyroodhouse, short run, 2019

Director & Writer, THE GRANDMOTHERS GRIMM, Buxton Festival Fringe - Southwark Playhouse - Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 7 week tour

Director, DOCTOR MOREAU EXPLAINS, Assembly Roxy Edinburgh, 3 days, 2019

Prop Maker, A WAR OF TWO HALVES, Tynecastle Stadium, 3 weeks, 2019

Director, IT NEVER ENDS, Assembly Roxy Edinburgh, 1 night rehearsed reading, 2019

Director & Writer, A NOTE OF EXPLANATION, Assembly Roxy Edinburgh, 3 nights, 2019

Director, SHERLOCK HOLMES - THE FINAL RECKONING, Assembly Roxy Edinburgh, 1 week, 2019

Director, IT NEVER ENDS, Traverse Theatre, 1 night rehearsed reading, 2019

Producer, TWELFTH NIGHT, Paradise In The Vault, 2 weeks, 2018

Prop Maker, A WAR OF TWO HALVES, Tynecastle Stadium, 3 weeks, 2018

Director, CARE, Annexe Arts, 3 nights, 2018

Director & Writer, THE GRANDMOTHERS GRIMM, Assembly Roxy Edinburgh, 1 week, 2018

Director & Writer, THE GRANDMOTHERS GRIMM, Edinburgh Horror Festival, 1 week, 2017

Director, PIRATE JULIUS CAESAR, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, 3 weeks, 2017

Producer, THE NETHER, Assembly Checkpoint, 1 week, 2017

Director & Adaptor, VIRGINIA WOOLF'S ORLANDO, Monkey Barrel, 1 week, 2017

Director, THE STEAMPUNK TEMPEST, Various, 5 weeks, 2016

Assistant Director, JULIUS CAESAR, The Studio Edinburgh, 1 week, 2016

Director, QUANTUM PHYSICS VS ZOMBIES, Glasgow Science Festival, 1 day, 2016

Assistant Director, WOMEN OF THE MOURNING FIELDS, Tour, 5 weeks, 2015

Assistant Director, A WINTER'S ORESTEIA, Tour, 3 weeks, 2015

Director, EVEN IF WE LOSE OUR LIVES, Summerhall, 1 week, 2014

Director & Adaptor, ARISTOPHANES' THE BIRDS, Summerhall, 1 week, 2013

Training

Introduction To Creative Scotland Funding - FST - 2018

Introduction To Producing - National Theatre - 2016

Location

City of Edinburgh

Experience

5-10 years

Art forms / Disciplines

  • Circus
  • Streaming
  • Theatre / Live perfomance

What I do

  • Costume Design
  • Devising
  • Directing
  • Dramaturgy
  • Facilitating
  • Movement Direction
  • Music - Can learn by ear
  • Music - Plays Instruments
  • Music - Singing
  • Performance Art
  • Physical Theatre / Mime
  • Prop Making
  • Puppetry
  • Site Responsive/Immersive
  • Street Theatre
  • Teaching / Coaching
  • Verbatim theatre
  • Working with disabled artists
  • Working with disabled non-professional adults / children
  • Working with young people
  • Working with young people with special educational needs
  • Writing

Additional Languages

Conversational levels of French, German, and Portuguese

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