Mr Burns

Anne Washburn's plays include 10 out of 12, Antlia Pneumatica, Apparition, The Communist Dracula Pageant, A Devil At Noon, I Have Loved Strangers, The Internationalist, The Ladies, Little Bunny Foo Foo, Mr. Burns, Shipwreck, The Small, an adaption of The Twilight Zone, and transadaptations of Euripides' Orestes & Iphigenia in Aulis. Her work has been produced nationally, and internationally. Awards include a Whiting, a Guggenheim, an Alpert Award, a PEN/Laura Pels award, a NYFA Fellowship, a Time Warner Fellowship, Susan Smith Blackburn finalist twice, and residencies at MacDowell and Yaddo.

Emma is a freelance theatre director. She trained at Goldsmiths, University of London and at the Young Vic. Emma has a passion for new work and predominantly directs new plays. She believes we have a responsibility to contribute to the world we inhabit and address the state of society we occupy. 

Recent Directing includes productions for LAMDA, Queens Theatre Hornchurch, the Royal Shakespeare Company and The Bunker. Emma has worked as Associate / Assistant Director at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Headlong, Young Vic, Theatre Royal Stratford East, New Diorama, Salisbury Playhouse, The Print Room, St James’ Theatre, The Pleasance and in the West End at Theatre Royal Haymarket with John Caird.

Emma is an associate artist at National Youth Theatre and a mentor director for National Theatre Connections. She is a guest director at LAMDA, RWCMD and Theatre Academy London. Emma also facilitates regular workshops for organisations such as National Theatre, Young Vic Theatre, RTYDS, NYT, Arts Ed, University of Kent, Goldsmiths College, and Theatre Academy London. Emma taught and directed at The Brit School for six years. Emma teaches because she is passionate about empowering artists from all walks of life to find and hone their voice.

Contains adult themes, gun violence, haze and scenes of a distressing nature.