Jack Emery
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Jack Emery is a British
director, writer and producer for stage, TV and radio. He was educated at Keele University
. He began his career producing and acting at Keele, most notably in his first one-man show taken from the novels and plays of Samuel Beckett
, called "A Remnant", which played in the West End
, the Edinburgh Festival
and toured worldwide.
Emery has worked both as a freelance and later through his own production company, The Drama House. His production credits include the TV movies "Witness Against Hitler" (1996) and "Breaking the Code
" which won the Best Single Drama award at the Broadcasting Press Guild
Awards.
He was awarded an honerary degreee by Keele University in recognition of his "body of work, both as original writer and producer, which is distinguished by scholarship and scrupulous research".
He is a former husband of broadcaster Joan Bakewell.
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director, writer and producer for stage, TV and radio. He was educated at Keele University
Keele University
Keele University is a campus university near Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England. Founded in 1949 as an experimental college dedicated to a broad curriculum and interdisciplinary study, Keele is most notable for pioneering the dual honours degree in Britain...
. He began his career producing and acting at Keele, most notably in his first one-man show taken from the novels and plays of Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet. He wrote both in English and French. His work offers a bleak, tragicomic outlook on human nature, often coupled with black comedy and gallows humour.Beckett is widely regarded as among the most...
, called "A Remnant", which played in the West End
West End theatre
West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...
, the Edinburgh Festival
Edinburgh Festival
The Edinburgh Festival is a collective term for many arts and cultural festivals that take place in Edinburgh, Scotland each summer, mostly in August...
and toured worldwide.
Emery has worked both as a freelance and later through his own production company, The Drama House. His production credits include the TV movies "Witness Against Hitler" (1996) and "Breaking the Code
Breaking the Code
Breaking the Code is a 1986 play by Hugh Whitemore about British mathematician Alan Turing, who was a key player in the breaking of the German Enigma code at Bletchley Park during World War II...
" which won the Best Single Drama award at the Broadcasting Press Guild
Broadcasting Press Guild
The Broadcasting Press Guild is a British association of journalists who specialise in writing and broadcasting about television, radio and the media generally....
Awards.
He was awarded an honerary degreee by Keele University in recognition of his "body of work, both as original writer and producer, which is distinguished by scholarship and scrupulous research".
He is a former husband of broadcaster Joan Bakewell.