Emily Louizou

Theatre Director & Founder, Collide Theatre

Emily Louizou is a London-based theatre and opera director, originally from Athens, Greece.

She trained on the acclaimed MFA Theatre Directing programme at Birkbeck, University of London. Prior to this, she completed her BA Degree in English Literature at University College London (UCL). She is the founder and Artistic Director of Collide, an international female-led theatre company based in London. Since its inception in 2015, Collide has collaborated with more than 70 artists coming from diverse cultural backgrounds and created 9 successful theatre productions. In 2019, Collide was selected to as one of the ten most promising companies to watch by the New Diorama. Emily’s production of Kafka’s Metamorphosis was featured in the Incoming Festival 2019 which showcased the UK’s most “explosive” work from emerging artists! In 2022 Collide was hailed by The Guardian “clearly a company to keep an eye on”. Emily’s latest production was an adaptation of Aeschylus’ Eumenides at the Little Theatre of Ancient Epidaurus in July 2023. In addition to her directing work, Emily has worked as a resident assistant director at the Royal Shakespeare Company and at HOME in Manchester.