UK Agent: Edward Hughes
US Manager: Steve Smith at Stagecoach Entertainment: steve@stagecoachent.net
Emma Lindley is an award-winning and highly experienced writer and director working on popular
episodic series and her own films in both the UK and US.
Her UK drama directing credits include multiple episodes of ‘Holby City’ (BBC1), ‘Coronation
Street’, ‘Emmerdale’ and award-winning teen series, ‘My Parents Are Aliens’ and ‘24 Seven’(ITV).
She is skilled in both single and multi-camera directing and equally happy in studio or on location.
Her authored shorts as writer-director have been shown at festivals around the world, on ITV/
Channel 4 and include child-bride drama, ‘Red River’, winner of three Best Film awards (London
Short Film Festival). Her feature scripts as writer-director have been funded by South West
Screen, shortlisted for Sundance Screenwriters Lab and selected for the UK Filmonomics
development programme.
Emma’s work in the US includes directing two award-nominated arts documentaries for Ovation
TV. She has a current 01 visa and is represented in the US by Stagecoach Entertainment.
Emma is a voting member of BAFTA, Directors UK and WFTV and a guest lecturer in directing at
NFTS and Met Film School.
Website: www.emmalindley.net
Television
2023: HOPE STREET – Director 2 x 45′ Drama Series Long Story/BBC/Britbox
Popular crime drama series
Executive Producer: Donna Wiffen, Paul Marquess
2021: EMMERDALE – Director 8 x 30’ Drama Series ITV
Popular continuing drama series set in Yorkshire village
Producer: Kate Brooks
2019-2023: CORONATION STREET – Director 15 x 30’ Drama Series ITV
Popular continuing drama series set in Manchester
Producer: Iain McLeod
2019-21: HOLBY CITY – Director 3 x 60’ Drama Series BBC
Popular drama series set in a Hospital
Producers: Poz Watson, Yasmin Kalli
2012: IN SEARCH OF FOOD – Producer/Director 3 x 30’ Factual Noise/Ovation TV (US)
Series about a chef who only uses locally sourced food, featuring Jason Mraz.
Executive Producer Sian Edwards-Beal
Nominated for CableFAX Award Best Food Series
2011: MY LIFE: BIG BROTHER – Producer/Director, 1 x 30’ Documentary Glasshead/ BBC
Ethan (14) helps care for brother Aidan (10), who has a form of dwarfism.
Narrated by Warwick Davis. Described by The Telegraph as ‘moving and inspiring’.
Executive Producer Lambros Atteshlis
2010: WHO ARE WE? – Producer/Director 3 x 30’ Factual series Glasshead/BBC
Millie (10) lives on a communal farm while Martha (11) learns about life as a Victorian.
Series Producer Mary Sprent
2009: ANATOMY OF A CLOSET – Producer/Director 1 x 45’ Factual Noise/Ovation (US)
A celebration of iconic fashion featuring U2, Mary Quant and Mena Suvari.
Executive Producer Sian Edwards-Beal
Nominated for CableFAX Awards Best Documentary
2001: 24 SEVEN – Director 5 x 25’ Drama series Granada Media/ ITV
Teen drama series set in a Yorkshire boarding school.
Producer: Diane Whitley
Nominated for Prix Jeunesse
2000: BRUM – Director 4 x 10’ Comedy series Ragdoll/BBC
Popular children’s series about a magic car
Producer: Anne Wood
1999: MY PARENTS ARE ALIENS – Director 2 x 30’ series Granada Media/ ITV
Multi-award-winning comedy series
Producer Beryl Richards
Nominated for Royal Television Society Best Children’s Drama
1998: BALLOONS – Director 1 x 10’ Drama Compulsive Viewing/ C4
Love story set in a nursing home. Described by Time Out as ‘Wittily tender’.
Producer: Madeleine French
Channel 4 Lloyds Bank Film Challenge Award
Festival Shorts
2018: THIN AIR 1 x 10’ Drama
Writer/Director/Producer
Stephen (8), home alone, is visited by a mysterious woman. Is he in danger?
Newport Beach Film Festival
UK Tweet Fest
2015: RED RIVER 1x 12’ Drama Directors UK
Writer/Director/Producer
A teenaged girl runs away from a forced marriage.
Directors UK Challenge ALEXA Winner
London Short Film Festival
Best Film Award, Non-Multiplex Cinema
Best Film Award, UK Tweet Fest
1996: A SOUTHERN BELLE’S GUIDE TO NEW YORK – Director 1 x Factual, SE Films
The adventures of a single girl in New York – the real ‘Sex and the City’
Producer: Sian Edwards-Beal
Premiere Magazine Audience Choice Award
1995: SECRET SOCIETY – Director 1 x 20 Drama NSFTV/ITV
A wife being bullied by her husband takes up sumo wrestling.
Producer: Jenny Mitchell
Nominated Channel 4 Young Filmmaker of the Year Award
Features in development
ANCHOR BABY feature – Writer/Director
A female lawyer finds a young Hispanic girl lost in the Arizona desert and struggles to
unite her with her mother, taking her up against a corrupt local politician.
Shortlisted for Sundance Screenwriters Lab
Selected for Filmonomics development scheme
RIVER HOME feature – Writer/Director
A woman saves a man from drowning and hides him on her houseboat, but her love
for him puts both their lives in danger.
Education and training
MA Film Production (Direction)
Polish National Film School
Northern School of Film and Television
BA Hons (2:1) Theatre Studies and Dramatic Arts
University of Warwick
ITV: Multi-Camera Director Training