EMMA
WHITEHEAD
DIRECTOR & CREATIVE PRODUCER

CV

Screen

Director | Something Outlandish, and Dissection of Disrepute by Juliet Lochrin | DOP. Alex Shingles | 2023

Script Supervisor | The Dreamer by Gilbert Kemp Attrill | Dir. Gilbert Kemp Attrill, DOP. Hamish Gregory | 2023

Director and Creator | Frogs by TEND1E ft WheresCCINO | NIDA x ABC Television (rage) x Triple J Radio | 2022

1st AD | Say It To My Face by Gloomie | Dir. Chinmaya Madan, NIDA x ABC Television (rage) x Triple J Radio | 2022

Production Assistant | Waiting For You by The Terrys | Dir. Alexei Ymer-Welsby, DOP. Zeke Collins | 2022

Stage

Director | The Dragonfly by Simon Thomson | Old Fitz Theatre, Sydney | Forthcoming, October 2024

Director & Producer | Shook by Samuel Bailey | The Substation, Qtopia Sydney | May 2024

Directorial Secondment | Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II, Dir: Gale Edwards | Pacific Opera, Sydney | May 2024

Assistant Director | A Flea in Her Ear, Dir: Kate Gaul | Siren Theatre x University of Sydney Development | May 2024

Director | Jane Franklin and the Rajah Quilt by Cate Whittaker | Riverside Parramatta & Theatre Royal Hobart | Nov/Dec 2023

Associate Director | Track Works Opera by Clemence Williams & Thomas De Angelis, Dir: Clemence Williams | Site Specific, NSW | Nov 2023

Director & Producer | One Who Wants To Cross by Marc-Emmanuel Soriano | Flight Path Theatre | Sept 2023

Director and Creator | IN/FINITE SOL. by Lost Thought | Sideshow Hub, Sydney Fringe Festival | Sept 2023

Director | Trash Wizard by Bella Battersby | Storytellers Festival, Kings Cross Theatre | August 2023

Assistant Director and Stage Manager | Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo, Dir: Menila Moineaux | The Cooperative, Sydney | July 2023

Directorial Secondment | Mary Poppins the Musical, Official Australian Tour, Melbourne, Res. Dir: Liam McIlwain | June 2023

Directorial Secondment | Porpoise Pool by JoJo Zhou, Dir: Eve Beck | Belvoir St Theatre 25A, Sydney | May 2023

Director | BELT IT by Maeve Hook, Me/DEA by Kei Murakami | Radical Acts, Theatre Works Melbourne | April 2023

Director and Co-Creator | YAMA by Lost Thought | Kings Cross Theatre, bAKEHOUSE residency | April 2023

Director | Story of Grandmother adapted by Emma Whitehead and the company | NIDA | April 2023

Assistant Director | The Magic Flute by W. A. Mozart, Dir: Clemence Williams | NIDA x Sydney Conservatorium of Music | 2022

Directorial Secondment | Little Women the Opera by Mark Adamo, Dir: Ella Marchment | Opera Holland Park, London | 2022

Director and Creator | SOL. By Emma Whitehead and the company | NIDA | 2022

Director | The Chocolate Roster by Brooke Robinson | New Theatre, Sydney | 2022

Director and Creator | Jono & Charlene (The Sex Doll) by Emma Whitehead | NIDA | 2022

Assistant Director | Falsettos the Musical by William Finn and James Lapine, Dir: David Berthold | NIDA | 2022

Director | Decline & Hall by Roger Gimblett | Genesian Theatre, Sydney | 2020

Assistant Director and Music | A Passage to India by E.M. Forster, Martin Sherman, Dir: Mark G Nagle | Genesian Theatre | 2022

Cultural Advisor | Beautiful Thing by Jonathan Harvey, Dir: Mark G Nagle | New Theatre, Sydney | 2021

Resident Director | Sherlock Holmes and the Death on Thor Bridge by Sandra Bass, Dir: CArlin Hurdis | Genesian Theatre | 2020

Creative Producer | Made in Dagenham the Musical by David Arnold, Richard Thomas, Richard Bean, Dir: Mark Oldknow | BMOS | 2017

Co-Director & Choreographer | In Flanders Fields by Katie Nightingale | BMOS, UK | 2016

Director & Choreographer | Disruptor by Emma Whitehead and the company | Warwick Arts Centre | 2008

Director | Halloween Immersive Experience by Emma Whitehead and the company | Warwick Drama Studio | 2008

Creative Producer | Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, adapted by Yann Allsopp, Dir: Yann Allsopp | Warwick Arts Centre | 2008

Creative Producer | Far Away by Caryl Churchill (site specific), Dir: Jennifer Markowitz | Leamington Spa Arts x CAPITAL Centre | 2008

Movement Director | Rhinoceros by Eugene Ionesco, Dir: Millie Marsh | Warwick Cooler | 2007