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ABOUT

"Louis Emmitt-Stern is a rising star playwright" Time Out

Louis is an award-winning writer, director and theatre-maker from Gibraltar based in London.

He won Soho Theatre's Tony Craze Award for his play SLIPPERY, set to premiere in autumn 2025. His play I FUCKED YOU IN MY SPACESHIP received a sold-out premiere at VAULT Festival, winning the Origins Award for Outstanding New Work. It subsequently transferred to Soho Theatre, London. Louis was called "a rising-star playwright" by Time Out. The play is published by Nick Hern Books. 

Louis' adaptation of MANSFIELD PARK, from the novel by Austen, premiered in a site-specific production at Jane Austen's House, Chawton. His original drama, SNAKES AND LADDERS, commissioned by the Oxford School of Drama, premiered at Southwark Playhouse. Louis was previously on attachment to Oxford Playhouse as part of the Playhouse Playmaker writer-in residence scheme 2023/24. His other work has been performed at Watford Palace Theatre, The Pleasance Theatre Islington, LAMDA, Leeds Conservatoire, and supported by Farnham Maltings. 

In 2023, Louis received the HM Government of Gibraltar Cultural Award for Special Achievement, recognising his contribution to Gibraltarian theatre and his work with young people in the arts. As a facilitator, he has run workshops for Battersea Arts Centre, Northcott Theatre Exeter, Omnibus Theatre Clapham, Soho Theatre, and Royal Holloway. He teaches on the MA/MFA Writing for Theatre, Film, Radio and Television at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

He trained at Guildford School of Acting  (BA Hons), and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama  (MFA), and is an alumnus of the Gibraltar Academy of Music and Performing Arts,  Soho Theatre Writers Lab, Soho Writers Alumni Group, National Theatre Young Playwrights Programme, Lyric  Hammersmith Young Directors Course, and Oxford Playhouse Playmakers. 

 

He is represented by Maddie O’Dwyer at Berlin Associates. 

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