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Profile GeneratorEmilia di Girolamo works primarily as a screenwriter but she is also an award winning playwright and poet, a published author and journalist of Anglo-Indian and Italian heritage. Her plays include 1000 FINE LINES (Time Out Critics Choice), BOOM BYE BYE (Paines Plough and currently being revived for a new production in 2008 by Under The Skin directed by Rikki Beadle Blair) and her most recent play FALLING.Emilia’s debut novel FREAKY was published to outstanding revues and swiftly optioned by Clerkenwell Films. Clerkenwell also optioned Emilia’s play Boom Bye Bye and Emilia adapted it as a single drama TRIGGER WARNING (Clerkenwell Films). Emilia has recently written a brand new single drama THE SILENCE for BBC1 and currently writes for EastEnders.This year Emilia was supported by Screen South to write and develop her first feature film working titled HUMAN CONTACT mentored by the legendary Margaret Matheson.With a PHD in the rehabilitation of offenders using drama based techniques and a First in Drama from Middlesex University, Emilia has worked extensively in prisons throughout the UK and lectured in Writing for Performance at Middlesex University between 1994-2006. She has written for The Guardian, The Times, London Magazine, The Devil and various other women’s and literary magazines. Emilia's leader article, 'Marked for Life', written for The Guardian appears in The Guardian Year 2004 – the best journalism of the year to appear in The Guardian.
Emilia lives in Hastings, East Sussex with husband singer songwriter CHAPMAN and their daughter Raffiella.
Check out the website for more info: emiliadigirolamo.co.uk
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