Emma 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.

Emma’s work as a recording and concert artist is extensive and includes singing with the BBC Concert Orchestra, Liverpool Philharmonic, Tasmanian Symphonic Orchestra and The Golden Age of Broadway for Bryn Terfel. She has workshopped many new pieces for theatre including Liberation Day and The Damon Albarn Project (National Theatre), Matilda (RSC), Up The Junction and Come Dancing (Really Useful Group), Country Music (Royal Court) and The Last Ship for Sting.

Television credits includes: The Long Shadow, Coronation Street, Marple, Heartbeat, Where The Heart Is, Four Fathers, Silent Witness, Casualty, Bleak House, The Story of Music and Doctors.

Film credits include: First Night with Richard E. Grant, The Parole Officer with Steve Coogan, Understanding, and The Hazard Dome.

Radio credits include: Sunset Boulevard and Friday Night is Music Night.​

Emma trained with Michael Hampshire, Sandra Whiteley and at Valerie Jackson’s Stage 84 – The Yorkshire School of Performing Arts, of which she is now a patron.