About Emma & Shereen
Emma Dennis-Edwards is an award-winning writer and actor of Jamaican and Trinidadian heritage. Her new play Not Your Superwoman stars Letitia Wright and Golda Rosheuvel, and is currently running at the Bush Theatre until 1 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.
Shereen Jasmin Phillips is an award-winning multidisciplinary creative and senior leader of Vincentian heritage. She is the former Creative Director of Taking Part, the Young Vic’s Creative Engagement Department, which she led from 2019 - 2025, delivering free programmes for thousands of young people and adults in Lambeth and Southwark each year. During her six year tenure, Shereen created and led large-scale, socially engaged programmes such as INNOVATE, which used multidisciplinary art forms to teach the curriculum, and developed new performance platforms such as London’s first theatre-ballroom show Sundown Kiki and the international multi-year Communities of Resistance partnership with Hetrick Martin Institute in New York. In 2021, she won a Writers Guild Olwen Wymark Award in recognition of her work championing new writing. Shereen is currently dramaturg on To Sir, With Love - A New Musical starring Lulu and Wayne Brady, which will be performed in concert on Monday 24 November 2025 at the Gillian Lynne Theatre in London.
Shereen holds a BA (Hons) in Drama, Applied Theatre and Education at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
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