Daniel Emery

He/him

An emerging Franco-British director and translator with a particular interest in European work.

I am associate director of Shipwright and Peckham Levels theatres, making new live work for South East London. I am co-director of Riva Theatre, bringing translated work to British stages.

My practice straddles theatre and comedy, and tries to bring the two together. Theatre has to make its audience part of the creation of the meaning of a work.

I hold an MSc in Political Sociology, where my research focussed on necropolitics, and the sociological valency of art and live performance.

Credits

DIRECTOR, Sarah Roberts: Silkworm, Assembly Edinburgh, 4 weeks, 2024

DIRECTOR, Chelsea Birkby: This is Life, Cheeky Cheeky, Just the Tonic Edinburgh, 4 weeks, 2024

DIRECTOR, Will Owen: Like, Nobody's Watching, Assembly Edinburgh, 4 weeks, 2024

DIRECTOR, Runi Talwar in The Runi Talwar Story, Pleasance Edinburgh, 4 weeks, 2024

DIRECTOR, John Tothill: The Last Living Libertine, Soho Theatre, 1 week, 2024

DIRECTOR, Sorry We Didn't Die at Sea, Park Theatre, 3 weeks, 2023

DIRECTOR, John Tothill: The Last Living Libertine, Pleasance Below, 4 weeks, 2023

DIRECTOR, Alarmi!, Omnibus Theatre, rehearsed reading, 2023

TRANSLATOR, Dancefloor Memories, Omnibus Theatre, rehearsed reading, 2023

DIRECTOR, Peter Pan, Shipwright, 1 week, 2022

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, Paradise Lost, Shipwright, 1 week, 2022

DIRECTOR, Sorry We Didn't Die at Sea, Seven Dials Playhouse, 1 week, 2022

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, Another America, Park Theatre, 3 weeks, 2022

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, Dido & Aeneas, Shipwright, 1 week, 2020

DIRECTOR, Final Cut, Underbelly Cowgate, 3 weeks, 2019

DIRECTOR , Cambridge Footlights Tour Show, Pleasance Edinburgh, UCB New York, Second City Chicago, 3 months, 2018

DIRECTOR, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Pantomime), ADC Theatre, 2 weeks, 2017

DIRECTOR, The House of Bernarda Alba, ADC Theatre, 1 week, 2017

DIRECTOR, Joseph K, Corpus Playroom, 1 week, 2016

Training

Young Vic Springboard 2019