Emma Zadow

Emma Zadow is an alumnus of Soho, Mercury and Criterion Theatre Writers Labs. Her award-winning BBC New Creatives short "Jigging" is on BBC iPlayer. Her screenplay “Fridge” was second at BIFF for Best Unproduced Screenplay 2024. As an actor, she won the Fringe Encore Award at the Soho Playhouse, New York.

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SWANS ARE ARSEHOLES

An extract from a dark comedy for stage, exploring deep fake porn identity theft.

All Sarah wants is to be normal, especially now with her boyfriend Mark. But when an AI sex tape of her with a swan goes viral, things get weird... Sarah investigates the origins of the swan-sex-video. Amid this chaos, her dark past resurfaces when her ex-partner and drug dealer, Taz, reappears, taunting her by calling her “Saffie”, a name tied to her days of heavy drug use and blackouts. Taz urges Sarah to try and remember what she did during her blackouts years ago. Sarah has just broken up with Mark and DCI Harris has told her it’s a dead end in the case to finding out who did it, in the previous scene. She can’t answer it in confidence. In the stage production, the view count is projected and increases throughout the show.