Emily Ingram is a director and writer. She trained at LAMDA where she was a recipient of an Isabel Monk scholarship. In 2021-2022 she was part of the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh’s L20 artist attachment programme. Ingram is a co-founder of touring theatre collective Some Kind of Theatre.

Directing credits include Monumental (F-Bomb Theatre and Edinburgh 900 Festival), Squeezy Yogurt for National Theatre of Scotland and BBC Scotland as part of their Scenes For Survival series, and The Sprite In The Dolls House for historic venue The Palace of Holyroodhouse.

Associate work includes New Normal for Birds of Paradise and Diverse Patterns at the 2025 Nepal International Theatre Festival and work on The Stage Awards-shortlisted digital theatre series The Show Must Go Online.

Ingram’s assistant directing credits include Whodunnit [Unrehearsed] 4 (Park Theatre, directed by Jez Bond), Trainspotting Live (Seabright Live, directed by Adam Spreadbury-Mayer and Ben Anderson), and Sophia (Pitlochry Festival Theatre, directed by Janys Chamber). In 2021, she worked as the cinematographer for Hopscotch Theatre’s short film of The Unseen Child by Hannah Lavery (directed by Jen McGregor).

As a writer, Ingram is best known for her critically-acclaimed play The Grandmothers Grimm (originally produced by Some Kind of Theatre), which has been performed across the world, receiving the Script Award at the 2023 USA National Women’s Theatre Festival.