Emma Rice is the Artistic Director for Shakespeare’s Globe and the director of this year’s productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and 946 –The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips. For the last 20 years she has worked for Kneehigh as an actor, director and Artistic Director. Her productions for Kneehigh include: 946 –The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips, The Red Shoes, The Wooden Frock, The Bacchae, Tristan & Yseult, Cymbeline (in association with RSC), A Matter of Life and Death (in association with National Theatre), Rapunzel (in association with Battersea Arts Centre), Brief Encounter (in association with David Pugh and Dafydd Rogers Production), Don John (in association with the RSC and Bristol Old Vic), Midnight’s Pumpkin, The Wild Bride, Wah! Wah! Girls (in association with Sadler’s Wells and Theatre Royal Stratford East for World Stages) and Steptoe and Son. Other work includes: the West End production of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Oedipussy (Spymonkey); The Empress (RSC) and An Audience with Meow Meow (Berkeley Repertory Theatre).