Emelie FitzGibbon is the founder (1984) and former Artistic Director of Graffiti Theatre Company and is now working as a freelance director and dramaturgical advisor.
In a long career she has directed professionally for a range of companies and has contributed to commissioning and development of new works from an international and national range of writers. Her productions have toured to New York (Infidel by Roger Gregg), Arizona (A Day in the Life of a Pencil by Ray Scannell), Sweden (Maze of Power by Soren Skjold), Wales and Scotland (The Riddle Keeper by Laurie Brooks and Lives Worth Living by Lawrence Evans and Jane Nash).
She has led company-devised work for many years and commissioned work from Angela Betzien, (Australia), Mike Kenny (UK), Laurie Brooks (USA), Roger Gregg (Ireland) and Ray Scannell (Ireland). In 2021, she received a prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from Assitej International for services to theatre for young people.
She was co-director on The Four-Faced Liar – an online audio production for The Everyman in November 2020.