Emma Williams
Peg
Emma made her West End debut as Truly Scrumptious in the original cast of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the London Palladium winning the Arts Correspondents' Award for Best Newcomer. She has received four Laurence Olivier Award nominations for her work in Love Story, Zorro, Mrs Henderson Presents and Half ASixpence, for which she also won the WhatsOnStage and West End Wilma Awards. She has also beennominated for a Manchester Theatre Award for her portrayal of Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun (UK Tour).
Other theatre credits include:
Elsa Schraeder in The Sound of Music (Chichester Festival Theatre), Princess Jill in Jack and the Beanstalk (Manchester Opera House), Pam in The Good Enough Mum’s Club (UK Concert Tour), Emma in Memories of the Musicals (Kilworth), Betty Haynes in White Christmas (Leicester Curve), Paula Pokrifki in An Officer and The Gentleman (Leicester Curve/UK tour), Alice in Dick Whittington (London Palladium), Betty Haynes in White Christmas (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Rebecca/Angela in Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (Criterion Theatre), A Spoonful of Sherman (St James Studio), Susan in Desperately Seeking Susan (Novello), Johanna in Sweeney Todd (Royal Festival Hall), Christine Keeler in A Model Girl (Greenwich), Kat in Tomorrow Morning (New End), Fran Kubelik in Promises, Promises (Sheffield Crucible), Ellie Brookes in Sex, Chips & Rock 'n' Roll (Manchester Royal Exchange) and Shelley Parker in Bat Boy (West Yorkshire Playhouse and Shaftesbury) amongst others.
Workshops, recordings and concerts include:
Concerts with the Tasmanian Symphonic Orchestra and Liverpool Philharmonic, Green Room Festival, The Secret Garden, Identical, Gatsby, Ryan Scott Oliver in London, British Musical Futures, Reception, Bryn Terfel’s The Golden Age of Broadway (Royal Festival Hall), Momentous Musicals, Bernice Bobs Her Hair, The Last Ship for Sting, Dido – Queen of Carthage (Andrew Fisher Ltd), Girlfriends (Perfect Pitch), Damsel in Distress (Chichester Festival Theatre), Liberation Day and The Damon Albarn Project (National Theatre), Michael Ball's 25th Anniversary Tour, Matilda (RSC), Up The Junction (Really Useful Group), Christmas in New York 2006 and 2007 (Notes from New York), Perfectly Divine (Theatre Museum), To Die For (Lance Horne), The Lucky Man (MJE Productions), Birds of a Feather – Bush Tales (Matthew R Jameson), Come Dancing (Really Useful Group), Country Music (Royal Court).
Television credits include:
For ITV – Emmerdale, The Long Shadow, Coronation Street, Marple, Heartbeat, Where The Heart Is, Four Fathers.
For BBC – Eastenders, Silent Witness, Casualty, Bleak House, The Story of Music and Doctors.
Film credits include:
First Night with Richard E. Grant, The Parole Officer with Steve Coogan, Understanding, and The Hazard Dome.
Radio and Voice credits include:
Rhyme Time Town (Dreamworks), Sunset Boulevard and Friday Night is Music Night (BBC Radio).
Emma trained with Michael Hampshire, Sandra Whiteley and at Valerie Jackson’s Stage 84 – The Yorkshire School of Performing Arts, of which she is now a patron.