About Emma & Shereen
Emma Dennis-Edwards is an award-winning writer and actor of Jamaican and Trinidadian heritage. Her new play Not Your Superwoman, starring Letitia Wright and Golda Rosheuvel, completed its sold-out run at the Bush Theatre in November 2025. Emma’s previous play Funeral Flowers won the Scotsman’s Fringe First Award and the Filipa Bragança award for best female solo performance in 2018. She is currently under commission with Clean Break, Cardboard Citizens and Pentabus. Emma’s TV credits include Consent (Channel 4), Champion (BBC/New Pictures), Boarders (BBC). She has also written on long running BBC continuing dramas such as Eastenders and Casualty.
Emma has a PG Certificate in Applied Theatre with Young People from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and the Almeida Theatre. She completed her BA in Acting at East 15.
The playtexts for Not Your Superwoman and Funeral Flowers are available to purchase via Concord Theatricals.
Shereen Jasmin Phillips
Shereen Jasmin Phillips is an award-winning multidisciplinary creative and senior leader of Vincentian heritage. She currently serves as the Dramaturg on To Sir, With Love – A New Musical. Shereen is a notable alumnus of Royal Central School of Speech and Drama with a 15-year track record within theatre and creative engagement sectors. As former Creative Director of Young Vic Taking Part from 2019 to 2025, Shereen led Taking Part, the Young Vic’s creative engagement department, delivering free programs for thousands of young people and adults in Lambeth and Southwark each year. She created large-scale, socially engaged programs, including Sundown Kiki, London's first theatre-ballroom show, created with and performed by Queer young artists from the Global Majority; Communities of Resistance, an international multi-year co-producing partnership with the Hetrick Martin Institute (HMI) in New York, which earned Taking Part an Emery Award in 2023 for excellence in stakeholder management; Unpacked, an initiative she developed and wrote part of, designed to tour high-quality work to non-theatre venues such as hospitals, prisons, and care homes to meet audiences less engaged with the arts due to accessibility and locality; and INNOVATE, a two-year program that collaborated with local secondary schools to use multidisciplinary art forms to teach across the curriculum.
Shereen’s writing credits include the play Love Reign (2021), and her short film Paved with Gold was selected for the Cardiff International Film Festival in 2020. She was awarded the Writers Guild Olwen Wymark Award in 2021 in recognition of her work championing new writing. Her recent dramaturgical credits include AiTopia (Young Vic/The Collective, 2025) Tribe (Young Vic/Women in Prison, 2023) and Sundown Kiki Reloaded (2023). She previously served as a reader for the National Theatre (2018–2022), the Young Vic (2018–2024) and the Mustapha Matura Award (2025). She is a trustee for the South London community music and arts centre Raw Material Music and Media, and talent manager for Jay Jay Revlon LTD. In 2026, she will be serving as Creative Director for Haringey Shed’s 25th anniversary extravaganza at the iconic Alexandra Palace!
Shereen holds a BA (Hons) in Drama, Applied Theatre and Education at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Photo: Jay Jay Revlon