Emma Jude Harris (she/her) is a Jewish American dramaturg and director. She trained at RCSSD on MFA Advanced Theatre Practice.
Credits as director/dramaturg include: REVENGE: After the Levoyah (The Yard Theatre, Summerhall, and Soho Theatre); How I Learned to Swim (Roundabout, Brixton House, and Bristol Old Vic Theatre); Cabildo (Wilton’s Music Hall and Arcola Theatre); Antisemitism: a (((musical)))) (Camden People's Theatre); sorry did I wake you (Tristan Bates); and The Agency (Tête à Tête). Credits as director include The Retreat (Finborough Theatre); and Ares (VAULT Festival).
Dramaturgy includes Watch On The Rhine (Donmar Warehouse) and The Unknown Goddess (Britten Pears, in development), as well as research consulting on Venice Preserved (RSC), The Mosinee Project (Underbelly), and Absolute Hell (NT).
Associate/assistant directing includes: The Fairy Queen (Longborough Festival Opera); Cinderella (English Touring Opera); A Fantastic Bohemian (Grimeborn, Arcola); The Coronation of Poppea (English Touring Opera) and RAM Opera Triple Bill directed by Polly Graham.
Emma directs extensively at drama schools including Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, RADA, Oxford School of Drama, and East 15.