Emily Aboud

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Emily is a Trinidadian theatre director.

She was shortlisted for RTST Peter Hall Award in 2023 and shortlisted for the JMK Award in 2022, and 2021.

She is a recipient of the Evening Standard Future Theatre Award.

Recent credits include Tender and Pink Lemonade (Bush Theatre), Rock DJ and Three Other Songs That Saved the World (New Diorama Theatre), Haemosporidian (Lyric Hammersmith), Flip! (Regional tour/Soho Theatre), Lady Dealer (Paines Plough Roundabout, Bush Theatre), SPLINTERED (Soho Theatre Mainhouse, also writer), and BOGEYMAN (Edinburgh Fringe 2022, also writer).

Emily’s work draws inspiration from the political community theatre she grew up making in Trinidad – a combination of music, movement, direct audience address and theatricality.

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