Emma is the Artistic Director of Kneehigh Theatre and for them has directed productions including The Red Shoes, for which she won Best Director 2002 in the TMA Theatre Awards; The Wooden Frock (nominated for Best Touring Production 2004, TMA Theatre Awards); The Bacchae (winner of the TMA Best Touring Production 2005); Tristan and Yseult (nominated for Best Touring Production 2006, TMA Theatre Awards); Nights at the Circus (a Lyric Hammersmith and Bristol Old Vic production in association with Kneehigh), Cymbeline (in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company); Rapunzel (co-produced with BAC) and A Matter of Life and Death (A National Theatre Production in association with Kneehigh).
Her next project for Kneehigh will be a re-telling of Don Giovanni, Don John.