Emma is a playwright and screenwriter from Dorset.
Original television projects in development include Starfields, pilot script commissioned by New Pictures, and Salmon, pilot script commissioned by Black Camel Pictures. Emma’s ten-part scripted podcast series Holy Sh!t, made by Hat Trick Podcasts and starring Mandeep Dhillon, Patsy Ferran and Cleve September, is available to stream now. Having written two scripts for Malory Towers S4, King Bert/CBBC, Emma is now writing three episodes for the 5th series. She has also written a number of episodes of Magic Light’s Pip and Posy S2. Her original pilot Guts is optioned by Eleven Film.
In lockdown, Emma’s monologue ‘Pythagoras’ was a winner in the Papatango ‘Isolated but Open: Voices Across The Shutdown’ project; a digital version was produced by Papatango and published by Nick Hern Books. Other plays include The Guardians and Pirate Queen (Almeida Theatre Participation), Armour (Vault Festival) and Split co-written with Tamar Broadbent (Brighton Fringe, Leatherhead Theatre and Vault Festival), which won the Vault Festival Spirit Award.
Emma is a graduate of the 2019 4Screenwriting programme.
Emma Pritchard is represented by Frances Arnold