Oxia Theatre was delighted with the reception of both press and public to Rika's Rooms by Gail Louw at The Playground Theatre for a test run of 6 shows in early March. Gaining two 5-star and four 4-star reviews, a full run of Rika's Rooms is currently being planned. Details will be available soon. With thanks to Executive Producer Apter Arts.
Emma Wilkinson Wright is Oxia's co-founder and Artistic Director. She's British-born, half Roma. Theatre includes: Vermandera in The Changeling at Southwark Playhouse; The Mitford Sisters in The Mitfords at The Playground Theatre and for EdFringe 2023; Helen Reed in Secret Thoughts at The Omnibus Theatre; Billie in The Moral Women for the Wandsworth Fringe Festival 2023; Adelaine Hain in The Only White at Chelsea Theatre; Lucinda in Dismantling The Reindeer at The Bread and Roses Theatre; JS in Necessary Targets at The Southwark Playhouse; Hazel in Patterns at Leicester Curve; Connie in ASSISTED for EdFringe 2023; Jacques in As You Like It at the Monobox with Owen Horsely); Martha Freud and Pauline Strauss in Love, Genius and a Walk at Theatro Technis; Clytemnestra in Iphigenia in Aulis at The Cockpit Theatre; Woman in Tiny Camel for The Finborough Theatre; Mother in The After Dinner Joke for the Greenwich Theatre; Trish in Meal with Friends at The White Bear Theatre; Tina in Hidden for the The Vaults Festival and Celia Cain in Her Naked Skin for the The John Lyons Theatre.
Film includes: Irene Ward in Lost Women Spies (World Media Rights, Netflix); Kara in Anareta (Claret and Blue Films); Abby in Square Peg Round Hole (IMDB, Best in Festival, Champion Film Salon International Festival 2022); Angharad in Leak in The Ceiling (IMDB); Anna in The Bottle (IMDB, Sam Windle); Mary in Dusk (IMDB, Avani Films); Angry Woman in The Queue (Galeria Pictures Ltd, Crystal Palace International Film Festival 2022); Jones in Slave (Best Festival Script, Milan Gold Awards 2021); Mercy in Traces of Suburbia (Semi Finalist, Chicago Indie Film Awards 2021); Ruth in Feedback (IMDB); Ghosts of the Wasteland (IMDB, Peracals Productions).
Radio and VO work includes: Gran in Umbrella for Bloomsbury Radio and Shelia in All My Tomorrows (Audible). Emma is trilingual - English, Spanish and French. She trained at RADA. Representation: Robert Fucilla, Imperial Artists Agency.
Greg Wilkinson is our writer. He's also an occasional DJ. And as part of his growing interest in the power of stories and performance to help bring about change in the world and in his own life, he has started to write plays. Insomnolent/ – informed by his experience of insomnia - is his first completed work; Assisted/, his second, gained a BBC writers room Popcorn Award nomination in 2022 and will be airing on Radio in the Spring.