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EMMA REEVES
Emma is an Olivier, WGGB and RTS Award-winning writer working across screen and stage. Her adaptation of Jacqueline Wilson’s My Mum Tracy Beaker (for BBC1 and CBBC) received a record-breaking reception, reaching 2.1 million streams on iPlayer in its first three days. It was nominated for Best Children’s TV Episode at the Writers’ Guild Awards in 2022, won the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Children’s TV episode, and was followed by two series of The Beaker Girls. Emma has won the Writers’ Guild Award for best Children’s TV episode twice before – for Eve, and for The Dumping Ground – and has won and been nominated for multiple other awards.
Emma’s other TV credits include The Worst Witch (Lead Writer), Eve (Lead Writer and co-creator), The Demon Headmaster, The Dumping Ground, Young Dracula, and most recently Hardacres for Channel 5/Playground. Her stage work includes her acclaimed adaptation of Jacqueline Wilson’s Hetty Feather (national tour and West End 2014-2016, Olivier-nominated and CAMEO Award-winner), Wave Me Goodbye, The Worst Witch (national tour and West End 2018-2019, winner of Oliver Award for Best Family Show. She was announced in November 2023 as the new Chair of the WGGB.