EmilyReader

Emily Reader is an award-winning writer specialising in audio and television. She has been interviewed about her writing career by Chris Douch twice and subsequently by Podium.me as part of their Instagram live series. Her stage play, Rumours, was performed both in Exeter and at the Inter-University Drama Festival in Glasgow in 2018. In May 2020, she adapted the script into a radio play. Her short film, Swan Song, and accompanying essay won her the Zara Malone Memorial Prize for the highest creative writing mark in her year. She has a portfolio of scripts available for production. Emily has also written for BBC Radio: her jokes were selected amongst hundreds to be performed on Newsjack. Her scripts have been shortlisted by ‘Owdyado Theatre, Ghostcow Productions, and her work has been read at scratch nights lead by Scriptwriters & Co, Dapper Sandwich, Newsroom Theatre Company, and Lonely Penguin Productions. She is currently studying MA Script Writing at Goldsmiths University.