Emma Jude Harris

Emma Jude Harris is a director/dramaturg who works across forms in opera, music theatre, 'classic' theatre, and new writing. Her directing credits include Cabildo (Arcola, Wilton's-postponed), sorry did i wake you (Tristan Bates), Ares (VAULTS), and The Agency (Tete a Tete). She has also dramaturged and been a research assistant at the National Theatre and the RSC. 

She is also the co-artistic director of Global Origins, a network and platform for international, multicultural, and diasporic artists that she run’s with Aneesha Srinivasan. Global Origins teaches on decolonising the canon and disrupting British hegemony in theatre at drama schools and venues including RCSSD, Mountview, Guildhall Change-Makers, and the Young Vic. Their 2-day multidisciplinary festival ARE WE THERE YET of international work took place at the Bussey Building in October 2019. Global Origin’s discussion group for international plays, REROUTED, is also delivered in partnership with the Gate Theatre and will be announced shortly.