Emma Juliet Rice was born on August 1967 and is a British actor, director and writer.
11 Facts About Emma Rice
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In 2022, Emma Rice was named in the Sky Arts Top 50 most influential British artists.
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Emma Rice worked with Kneehigh Theatre in Cornwall for twenty years as an actor, director, then artistic director with co-artistic director, Mike Shepherd.
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Emma Rice was born in Oxfordshire and grew up in Nottingham where her mother was a social worker and her father was a lecturer in personnel management.
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In 1994 Emma Rice joined the Cornish theatre company, Kneehigh, as a performer.
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Emma Rice went on to become the Artistic Director of Kneehigh, alongside Mike Shepherd, and under their stewardship Kneehigh produced a plethora of adaptations and original work, including Tristan and Yseult, The Bacchae and a 'seedy, dreamy' take on Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus.
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Whilst Emma Rice's work did not always appease critics, Kneehigh's 'visually stunning, inventive, often subversive and unashamedly populist' shows toured in the UK and internationally.
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In 2015 it was announced that Emma Rice would take over from Dominic Dromgoole as artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe.
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In 2017 Emma Rice announced her new touring theatre company, Wise Children.
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In 2021, Emma Rice directed an adaptation of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights which toured at Bristol Old Vic and Theare Royal Brighton to strong reviews from critics.
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In 2022 Emma Rice was named in the Sky Arts Top 50 most influential British artists.