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Emma Rice

Emma Rice is the proud Artistic Director of her company, Emma Rice Company,  and an internationally respected theatre-maker and director.

For Emma Rice Company, Emma has adapted and directed the productions A Child’s Christmas in Wales, North by Northwest, TheBuddha of Suburbia, Blue Beard, The Little Matchgirl and Happier Tales, Wuthering Heights, Bagdad Cafe, Romantics Anonymous, Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers, and Angela Carter’s Wise Children.

Emma Rice is the proud Artistic Director of her company, Emma Rice Company,  and an internationally respected theatre-maker and director.

For Emma Rice Company, Emma has adapted and directed the productions A Child’s Christmas in Wales, North by Northwest, TheBuddha of Suburbia, Blue Beard, The Little Matchgirl and Happier Tales, Wuthering Heights, Bagdad Cafe, Romantics Anonymous, Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers, and Angela Carter’s Wise Children.

As Artistic Director of Shakespeare’s Globe: Romantics Anonymous, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and The Little Matchgirl (and Other Happier Tales).

As joint Artistic Director of Kneehigh: The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk, Tristan& Yseult, 946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips, The Wild Bride, TheRed Shoes, The Wooden Frock, The Bacchae, Cymbeline (in associationwith RSC), A Matter of Life and Death (in association with National Theatre), Rapunzel (in association with Battersea Arts Centre), Brief Encounter(in association with David Pugh and Dafydd RogersProductions), Don John (in association with the RSC and Bristol Old Vic), Wah! Wah! Girls (in association with Sadler’s Wells and Theatre Royal Stratford East for World Stages), and Steptoe and Son.

Emma received the Outstanding Contribution to British Theatre award at the 2019 UK Theatre Awards and in 2022, was named one of Sky Arts’ 50 most influential British artists of the last 50 years. Emma recently won Best Direction at the 2025 Whatson Stage awards.

“I am thrilled, excited, and perhaps a little apprehensive to bring the iconic North by Northwest home to the US! I just hope that American audiences will love it as much as our British audiences did. What I am not apprehensive about is bringing its message: one of nations coming together in peace and friendship to make the world a better place. I think we can all raise a glass to that! And Boston, a place brimming with history and cultural energy, is the perfect fit for this timely piece. Expect sparks and larks as we bring our British humour to this American masterpiece. Boston, here we come!”