Accatone, Rocco and His Brothers, Volver, Bad Education, Old Boy, Dekalog, Irreversible, Ordinary People, Magnolia, 12 Angry Men, A Matter of Life and Death, Deliverance, Taxi Driver, Goodfellas.
Television
The Sopranos, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Six Feet Under, 24, Invasion, Life on Mars, The Governor, Nip Tuck, Funland, Afterlife, West Wing, Shameless, Prison Break, Judging Amy, Oulaws, Most Haunted, CSI Vegas, Boys From The Blackstuff, Sunset Beach (RIP) and Emmerdale coz my best mate plays Laurel - the vicars wife!
Books
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold,
I’m Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti,
Compulsion by Meyer Levin,
Cries Unheard by Gitta Sereny,
Lighthouse Keeping by Jeanette Winterson,
London Fields by Martin Amis,
As If by Blake Morrisson,
The End of Alice by A. M. Holmes,
Living Magically by Gill Edwards,
Be Here Now by Ramdass,
Will You Please Be Quiet Please? by Raymond Carver.
Heroes
Alice Sebold, Pauline Campbell, Gill Edwards, Ramdass, Dick Wolf, Dominic Savage, Shane Meadows, Lynda La Plante, Paul Abbot, Jimmy McGovern, Ken Loach, Mike Leigh, Russell T Davies, Danny Brocklehurst, Alan Bleasdale, Alan Ball.
Emilia di Girolamo works primarily as a screenwriter but she is also an award winning playwright and poet, a published author and journalist of Anglo-Indian and Italian heritage. Her plays include 1000 FINE LINES (Time Out Critics Choice), BOOM BYE BYE (Paines Plough and currently being revived for a new production in 2008 by Under The Skin directed by Rikki Beadle Blair) and her most recent play FALLING.
Emilia’s debut novel FREAKY was published to outstanding revues and swiftly optioned by Clerkenwell Films. Clerkenwell also optioned Emilia’s play Boom Bye Bye and Emilia adapted it as a single drama TRIGGER WARNING (Clerkenwell Films). Emilia has recently written a brand new single drama THE SILENCE for BBC1 and currently writes for EastEnders.
This year Emilia was supported by Screen South to write and develop her first feature film working titled HUMAN CONTACT mentored by the legendary Margaret Matheson.
With a PHD in the rehabilitation of offenders using drama based techniques and a First in Drama from Middlesex University, Emilia has worked extensively in prisons throughout the UK and lectured in Writing for Performance at Middlesex University between 1994-2006. She has written for The Guardian, The Times, London Magazine, The Devil and various other women’s and literary magazines. Emilia's leader article, 'Marked for Life', written for The Guardian appears in The Guardian Year 2004 – the best journalism of the year to appear in The Guardian.
Emilia lives in Hastings, East Sussex with husband singer songwriter CHAPMAN and their daughter Raffiella.
Check out the website for more info: emiliadigirolamo.co.uk
Hi Emilia! overdue congratulations on the birth of Rafiella! hope you are well, would love to see some picutures! My husband and I are travelling around south america for 4 months, taking a break from work until March! what bliss! Happy new year xxx
How are you, and how's Dom? I hear you're nearly due. I bet you're excited. Still need to meet you. Still haven't seen Dom play; you'll have to let me know next time he's playing and I'll come to see him perform with Pauline or someone. I hope to hear from you soon. Take care.
An honour and pleasure to be a friend of someone who has made a huge contribution to drama. Drama is an essential 'therapy' not just for offenders, but for all people who have their self-expression stifled. It can act as a panacea in rehabilitation. P.S. Congrats on your great news and hope to see you up here with Chapman in the future. xoxo Love Risa
Thanks Em! Hope you had a great year, and 2007 turns out to be even better, with the stars aligning and all your projects falling into place. A cut of forevermore should arrive as a late christmas present in a few days time.
That old song....I have no recall of...that's really sad. I Love Krimbo. Have a spiffing time. Italia on Christmas Day is a nice change. Curry would be good too.
It's been great MySpacing with you this year Emilia.
If you want me to send you some demos from this year, message me your address
