About

Emily Cracknell is a playwright and screenwriter with eight years’ experience in research and charity communications, and a background in probate (death and taxes). She enjoys telling a dark tale with a hint of death and a smattering of dry wit.

A graduate of Vancouver Film School’s scriptwriting programme, her script Cult, reached BBC Writers top 4%, was a quarter-finalist of the C21 Script Competition, and long-listed in Thousand Films Competition. She has been accepted on script labs, including, Nicole Perlman’s Screenwriting lab, SHIFFT Script Lab and Barbara Machin’s Writersroom. Her short script, Halves, was recently shortlisted for the Yarns, Nostalgia competition, and she’s writing on a collaborative all-female film project, The Ceremony, that is currently in development.

Her collaborative play, written with 5 other writers, featured at the 2024 Oxford Offbeat Festival. While her short plays: Nobody, Loose Women, A Little Less Conversation and Are you there… it’s me? featured at the first two season’s of Prototype, Mike Bartlett’s Oxford short playwriting night. She has since developed Loose Women into the full-length play Keep Calm and F* Off. While her Rapid Response piece to love you long time (already) by Katie Đỗ, Party-After, will be shown at Theatre503 at the end of July 2026.