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Emily is always on the lookout for new and exciting projects to work on! To get in touch with Emily, please email ehlayton@hotmail.co.uk.
education, Training & Qualifications
Emily attended Bradford Grammar School in Yorkshire from 2005 to 2012. She went on to study Education with Drama and English at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 2015 with a BA Hons. Her educational specialism was in psychology and sociology.
After graduating, she joined the Old Vic, New Voices FINDING YOUR VOICE scheme run by A C Smith in 2016.
She has a full DBS check, valid from August 2022. She is also proficient in basic spoken and written Spanish.
film, theatre & POETRY credits
FILM: SAY YOUR PRAYERS feature film starring Derek Jacobi, Anna Maxwell Martin, Roger Allam, Tom Brooke & Harry Melling, dir. Harry Michell, prod. Helen Simmons & Cow and Calf Productions (production coordinator, January to March 2018); AIMIMAGE PRODUCTIONS (assistant producer & development executive, December 2016 to April 2017); TIN PAN FILMS (assistant to BAFTA-nominated director, Ed Blum, September to December 2016); ASSASSIN'S CREED feature film starring Michael
Fassbender, Marion Cotillard & Jemery Irons, dir. Justin Kurzel (floor runner, June 2016); VOICE short film dir. Jamie Fraser, prod. Claire O'Brien & Upside Films (production manager, May 2016); POST COITAL web-series starring Will Attenborough & Phoebe Vigor, dir. Lowell Walker (producer, January to May 2016); CHUBBY FUNNY feature film dir. Harry Michell, prod. Helen Simmon & Guinea Pig Productions (production coordinator, October to December 2015)
THEATRE: WHEN ATLAST MET TANTALUS by Tiff Milner produced by Great Egg Theate (director, April to June 2024); I'M NOT AFRAID OF THE SKY by Max Kyte produced by Flat4 Theatre (director, April to May 2024); HOLLYWOOD LIED TO ME ABOUT CHILDBIRTH produced by Flat 4 Theatre (writer & director, October to November 2023); DreamArts 'Experiment' programme (theatre director, September 2023 to April 2024); Script sessions at the Royal Theatre Haymarket with the Masterclass Theatre Trust (feedback workshops - director, 2023); LET ME TRANSFER YOU produced by Matchstick Theatre Company at the Deptford Literature Festical (writer, March 2023); AND SO THE RABBIT DIED on the London Theatre Podcast (writer, June 2020); AND SO THE RABBIT DIED part of the Women's Writes Festival at the Arcola Theatre (writer, March 2020); WORKING WOMXN project by Leo Clicks exploring the impact of womxn working in the creative industry (contributor, May 2019); EMPTY SHOES, THE SLAYING OF MY CREATIVE SELF, ISSEI, ON THE STEPS OF THE GAS COMPANY THEATRE, BEHIND THE VOODOO LADY, OLDER SOUL, IN CONVERSATION WITH SOPHOCLES and SMICHOV short plays as part of the 365 Women a Year International Festival (writer, March to May 2019); INCENDIARY by Mark Jones at Waterloo East Theatre produced by the West Avenue Theatre Company (director, September 2018); Charterhouse Square Theatre Company run by Richard Franklin (producer, April to August 2017); JUST DO RIGHT produced by Atramental Theatre (writer, September to November 2016); PARTIAL NUDITY at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (writer & director, March to August 2016); TWO THIRDS at Homerton College and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (writer, director & producer, February to August 2015); THE CRASS MENAGERIE Burlseque Troupe dir. Martha Bennett (performer, September 2013 to June 2014); THE RIVER by Jez Butterworth dir. Isolde Penwarden ('another woman', May 2013)
POETRY CREDITS: Organisation and welcome team for SWEET SUNDAYS at the Hackney Old Baths (June 2022 to Present); WORDS BY EMILY LAYTON (April 2020 to present), POSTIVIE WELLBEING ZINE FOR MUMS issue 16 Leo Feeding Me At the Table Putting Food Into My Bowl (May 2022); LONDON POEMS ON THE LOCKDOWN To Meet Again and Here We Go Again (May 2020); THE DUBBLE All at Sea (May 2020).
work in education
After graduating from university, Emily worked as a private tutor from November 2015 to January 2019. She also runs drama clubs and workshops in schools across London.
Since May 2022, Emily has worked with the arts charity, Tender, as a workshop leader. She facilitates sessions about healthy relationships and domestic abuse with young people aged 9 to 25. In July 2023, she joined the Drama Educator team at Bigfoot Arts Education and since September 2023, she has been working as the director on DreamArts' Experiment programme, devising two new shows with young people in West London. She is currently co-facilitating DreamArts' and City Lions' Project 8 - focusing on using arts to explore well-being and future goals with young people with SEND.