Emily White

Emily White is a screenwriter and playwright of English and American/Filipino descent that grew up in Wales. Before becoming a writer, she originally trained as an actor at RADA.
In 2018 she won a place on Channel 4’s 4Screenwriting Course where she developed her pilot Land of My Fathers about a Syrian refugee coming to live in a small Welsh town.  She was then selected to be part of the BBC Wales Writersroom group ‘Welsh Voices’ in 2019.
Her acclaimed play, Pavilion, premiered at Theatr Clwyd in Sept-Oct 2019, directed by Tamara Harvey and published by Faber & Faber.
In 2020 she was nominated as Theatr Clwyd’s writer for the English Touring Theatre program, Nationwide Voices, on which she received a seed commission. She was also commissioned by Theatr Clwyd to write her play Atlantis, which went on to win the George Devine Award in 2021. Atlantis will be produced in 2026 at Theatr Clwyd and Chichester Festival Theatre.
Currently she has a comedy drama series in development for Little Door Productions, a film in development with Riot Time Pictures and a play commission in development with Michael Sheen’s new Welsh National Theatre.