Jemima trained at Queen Margaret University College in Edinburgh and on a Scottish Arts Council Directors Bursary with the Royal Lyceum Theatre and Stellar Quines Theatre Company.

In April 2024 she took up post as Artistic Director of the Tron Theatre. She has also served as Artistic Director and Chief Executive of A Play, A Pie and A Pint, Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Stellar Quines Theatre Company, and Artistic Director of Dundee Rep. She has won and been nominated for a number of awards and has directed over 50 professional productions. Her recent credits include: A View from the Bridge, Fruitcake(Tron Theatre); SCOTS(A Play, A Pie and A Pint/Edinburgh Fringe/54 Below NYC); The Sheriff of Kalamaki, The Great Replacement, Man’s Best Friend, The Joke(A Play, A Pie and A Pint); Cinderella, All My Sons(Dundee Rep); Maggie May(Leeds Playhouse/Leicester Curve/ Queens Hornchurch); and numerous episodes of River City for BBC Studios. She has also directed work for the Citizens Theatre, the National Theatre of Scotland, the Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, Dundee Rep, Stellar Quines Theatre Company, Imaginate, Borderline Theatre Company, Grid Iron Theatre Company, Traverse Theatre and Paines Plough.