Emma Baim
Yorkshire-born Emma Baim enjoys a varied career as a writer, actor and stage director. She has been writing and directing plays, monologues, and short films for over a decade. After training in Los Angeles attending a year-long professional actors’ programme, Emma co-founded a community interest theatre group, Next Generation Arts, in Yorkshire where she wrote and directed five well received children’s musical plays.
Being diagnosed with Crohn’s disease means hidden disability shapes Emma’s view of the world and instils in her a passion to give voice to stories so often overlooked and unheard.
Emma’s current projects in development include a darkly comic series for television depicting domestic abuse and the impact it has on sufferers and abusers alike, and a high concept sci-fi drama for young adult audiences exploring neuro-divergence through psionics.
In addition, Emma’s personal, humorous, poignant and ultimately triumphant stage play inspired by her own experiences living with
Crohn’s disease has recently earned her a place on the inaugural UK Women in Theatre Lab programme in partnership with London’s Jermyn Street Theatre. Also, in the pipeline, a commission to write a short for the Manchester TV production company Brew Up Productions. Both organisations will showcase Emma’s new work early in 2025. Her full acting CV can be found here on Spotlight.