Louis Emmitt-Stern

Louis' play SLIPPERY won Soho Theatre’s Tony Craze Award 2021, and is currently in development for a full production in 2024.

His second play I FUCKED YOU IN MY SPACESHIP received a sold-out premiere at VAULT Festival 2023, winning the Origins Award for Outstanding New Work. It subsequently transferred to Soho Theatre for a 3 week run in June 2023. Louis was called “a rising star playwright” by Time Out. The play is published by Nick Hern Books.

Louis other work has been performed at Soho Theatre, Watford Palace Theatre, Southwark Playhouse, The Pleasance Theatre Islington, Ivy Arts Centre, and supported by Farnham Maltings. He trained at Guildford School of Acting, and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and is an alumnus of the Gibraltar Academy of Music and Performing Arts, Soho Theatre Writers Lab, Soho Writers Alumni Group, National Theatre Young Playwrights Programme, and Young Lyric Directors Course at Lyric Hammersmith.

Louis was a finalist for a HM Government of Gibraltar Cultural Services Award for his production of Duncan Macmillan’s LUNGS, and for his work with young people in the arts and education. He teaches acting and playwriting both in the UK and Gibraltar. He is currently developing his debut TV pilot and his latest play.

He is represented by Maddie O'Dwyer at Berlin Associates.

Credits

WRITER, I Fucked You in My Spaceship, Soho Theatre, 3 weeks, 2023
WRITER, I Fucked You In My Spaceship, VAULT Festival, 1 week, 2023.
DIRECTOR, Brain Storm, Southwark Playhouse, Rehearsed Reading, 2022.
WRITER, Slippery, Soho Theatre, Workshop Reading, 1 week, 2022.
WRITER, Breeding, Watford Palace Theatre, 1 night, 2021.
DIRECTOR, Bull, Guildford School of Acting, 1 week, 2021.
DIRECTOR & WRITER, Hansel & Gretel, Ivy Arts Centre Guildford, R&D Lab, 2020.
DIRECTOR, Lungs, John Mackintosh Theatre Gibraltar, 1 week, 2020.
WRITER, Breeding, Southwark Playhouse / Zoom, 1 night, 2020.
DIRECTOR & WRITER, All The Blue Areas, Ivy Arts Centre Guildford, 2019.
WRITER, Laura, The Pleasance Islington, 3 nights, 2018.
DIRECTOR & WRITER, All The Blue Areas, GADA Studios Gibraltar, 2018.

Training

Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, MFA.
Soho Writers Alumni Group, 2021-2022.
Soho Theatre Writers Lab, 2020-21.
Lyric Hammersmith Young Lyric Directors Course, 2020.
Guildford School of Acting, BA (Hons).
NSDF Festival Company, 2020.
National Theatre Youth Playwrights Programme, 2018-19.