Emily Aboud is a Trinidadian theatre director. She was shortlisted for RTST Peter Hall Award in 2023 and shortlisted for the JMK Award in 2022, and 2021. She is a recipient of the Evening Standard Future Theatre Award. Recent credits include Flip! (Regional Tour and Soho Theatre), Lady Dealer (Paines Plough Roundabout), SPLINTERED (Soho Theatre Mainhouse, also writer), Close Quarters (LAMDA), Salt Slow (RCSSD), BOGEYMAN (Edinburgh Fringe 2022, also writer), Pink Lemonade (Bush Theatre), Dolly (Park Theatre) and Chatham House Rules (Pleasance Theatre). As a Caribbean theatre maker, her work draws inspiration from the political community theatre she grew up making in Trinidad – a combination of music, movement, direct audience address and theatricality.