Emma Williams

Emma Williams made her West End debut as Truly Scrumptious in the original cast of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the London Palladium, winning the Arts Correspondents’ Award for Best Newcomer. She has received four Laurence Olivier Award nominations for her work in Love Story, Zorro, Mrs Henderson Presents and Half A Sixpence, for which she also won the WhatsOnStage and West End Wilma Awards. Her portrayal of Annie Oakley in Annie Get Your Gun (UK Tour) earned her a Manchester Theatre Award nomination and she is also the voice of Mama Bunny in Rhyme Time Town for Dreamworks.

Other theatre credits include: Princess Jill in Jack and the Beanstalk (Manchester Opera House), Elsa Schraeder in The Sound of Music (Chichester Festival), Pam in The Good Enough Mum’s Club (UK Concert Tour), Lily in The Secret Garden in Concert (London Palladium), Emma in Memories of the Musicals (Kilworth), Betty Haynes in White Christmas (Leicester Curve), Paula Pokrifki in An Officer and The Gentleman (Leicester Curve/UK tour), Alice in Dick Whittington (London Palladium), Betty Haynes in White Christmas (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Rebecca/Angela in Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens (Criterion Theatre), A Spoonful of Sherman (St James Studio), Susan in Desperately Seeking Susan (Novello), Johanna in Sweeney Todd (Royal Festival Hall), Christine Keeler in A Model Girl (Greenwich), Kat in Tomorrow Morning (New End), Fran Kubelik in Promises, Promises (Sheffield Crucible), Ellie Brookes in Sex, Chips & Rock ‘n’ Roll (Manchester Royal Exchange) and Shelley Parker in Bat Boy (West Yorkshire Playhouse and Shaftesbury) amongst others.