Emma Large is a young director with experience in scripted and devised theatre, musicals, opera, and events. She also facilitates theatrical workshops, leading puppetry, stage combat, and movement sessions.  

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Emma recently worked with Aylesbury Opera on Dialogues of the Carmelites, which ran in March 2025. It was positively reviewed in Opera Magazine, with Mark Valencia commenting that "Poulenc’s final Salve Regina was devastating in its stylized simplicity, perhaps the best solution I’ve seen to staging this mass execution". In May 2024, she directed AO's La Boheme to critical acclaim. She is due to direct Aylesbury Opera's 2026 production of Don Carlo.

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Emma completed an internship with the Birmingham REP, where she facilitated the delivery of two summer schools. This led to further work within the Creative Learning department, including becoming Assistant Director for a Main House production, developed for the Uncommon Riches Festival. She was recently Tour A Director for the schools tour of Jam Jar Theatre's 'Penguins'. 

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Emma is a first-class honours graduate in English and Drama from the University of Birmingham.