"Gripping drama...Superb tale...brings riches" The GUARDIAN
“ Jenkins’ writing mixes the poetic and the everyday, the down-to-earth and the charming to impressive effect”
“From talented playwright Emily Jenkins - this is one of the best shows at the festival”
wRITER
"Jenkins’ lively writing manages to convey both light and dark: in this rather bleak world, there are moments of beauty and unexpected tenderness”
THE SCOTSMAN (Rainbow, Zoo Southside)
Emily is a double Fringe First Award winning writer for her plays Rainbow and Bobby & Amy - both of which she also directed.
Having completed the screen writing course at the National Film and Television School in 2022, she is currently working with Blue Horizon productions to adapt Bobby & Amy into a screenplay.
“***** Bobby & Amy is a transporting, beautiful, heartfelt reminder that strength and resilience can be found in unexpected places”
“***** storytelling in its purest form”
“**** A moving story of resilience, of changing landscapes, national trauma and, above all, friendship”
“**** Jenkins writing makes the mundane reality of everyday village life into a poetic, nostalgic dreamscape”
CURRENT
BOBBY & AMY Playtext is available to buy from Samuel French
COOKIES: The PLAY is available to buy from Samuel French
COOKIES: The FILM is available to stream. - a filmed version of the original production at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in October 2017. Directed by Anna Ledwich.
PAST PRODUCTIONS
BOBBY & AMY National Tour 2021. Pleasance Courtyard 2019. FRINGE FIRST AWARD. SOLD OUT SHOW. TOP PICK OF THE STAGE, WHATSONSTAGE, THE INDEPENDENT, THE LIST.
QUARANTINE National Maritime Museum. SPECIFIQ. March 2019.
COOKIES The Theatre Royal Haymarket, West End. Dir by Anna Ledwich. October 2017. Winner of Best Drama Education Resource 2020 and now part of a key stage 3 resource pack. The film of the production is available to watch online and you can purchase play texts from Samuel French
DARK MATTER Paine's Plough, Come to Where I'm From. August 2017
BOBBY & AMY Rehearsed reading, Jermyn Street Theatre. October 2016
THE BED Traverse Theatre, January and August 2013
RAINBOW Zoo Southside, August 2012. WINNER OF FRINGE FIRST AWARD
MORE REVIEWS
Thankfully, we have plays like Emily Jenkins' Cookies to remind us that we're not just screaming into the void. Over 80 electrifying minutes, we watch how small mistakes snowball into crises that threaten the lives of seven ordinary London teenagers.
Cookies -HIIVE
Emily Jenkins’ Cookies sends an important message about the power of social media and its capacity to affect lives in the internet age.
Cookies - MIRO MAGAZINE
Cookies being a show that is unlike one I have seen before. It is inventive...it is a good play. More than this, it sets the very purpose of theatre in its responsibility to engage, alight with the most visceral empathy.
Cookies - EVERYTHING THEATRE
Pay close attention to ‘Rainbow’; it will strike you as moving, smart, and powerful....Rainbow” shines with brilliance and covers a spectrum of dramatic feeling and powerful truth.”
Rainbow - THREE WEEKS
“Rainbow assumes its audience is intelligent and willing to think, and I appreciate that. Don't come to this show expecting mindless entertainment; you won't get it....The writing, by Emily Jenkins (who is also the show's director and producer) is fantastic. Her vibrant descriptions, beautifully delivered with just the right amount of humour and poignancy by the cast, easily transport the audience...I'd see Rainbow again, and I don't say that about many plays.”
Rainbow - FRINGE GURU
“With three brilliantly told stories interlocking by the tiniest of details, Jenkins examines human behaviour in a time of crisis…Jenkins’s direction was excellent…A pacey performance and tight writing made this such a strong production…Don’t miss it!”
Rainbow - EDFRINGE REVIEW