Emily Isaacs
writer | producer | director

Emily Isaacs is a writer and filmmaker from London.

After child modelling and acting as a child, she taught the ‘cello until a lapse of Sjogren’s syndrome caused her to become bed-bound.

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Having always wanted to write, she did a degree in English Literature, mostly from her bed.

When her Sjogren's went into a period of remission, she production-managed 13 Graves (2018) while completing a MA at Sussex.

In 2020 she started Scriptworks Productions, was a 2021 BAFTA Rocliffe TV Drama Finalist, and a member of the 2022 BFI Doclabs cohort.

In 2023, her tv pilot Adams and Eves made the final twelve of the Jed Mercurio Mentorship Programme, she became a trustee board member of the Hailsham Pavilion Cinema and started the Sussex International Film Festival with co-director Gareth Jones. In 2024 she won a place on the WFTV Kay Mellor Screenwriting Lab, she produced a short film called 'Enough' for writer/director Chris Martin and ran the second Sussex IFF. 

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This year, she has released Diamond Alice 'The Hoister's Code' as a novella, is producing a comedy-horror short for her husband, written and directed by him, titled 'Johnny and Jenny Take A Shortcut', and is planning to direct a short play by Andrew Allen towards the end of the year, titled 'Dick Joke' for a short run across the south coast. 

She currently lives in Eastbourne with her husband, their two teenage boys (who both have Autism and SEND) and has two adult children.