Emily Reutlinger

Emily Reutlinger is an award-winning international theatre director, dramaturg, and educator whose work spans Musical Theatre, Shakespeare, and New Work in a variety of forms. She currently splits her time between the US and UK.

 Recently she served for several years as the Head of BA Musical Theatre at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Productions for RCS include: Into the Woods, Company, Assassins, Pippin and Side Show, - both actor-muso, alongside several pieces of new musical development. For BA Acting: Julius Caesar, Romeo & Juliet and Liz Lochead’s Medea,

 She served as Associate Director on the 2018 Fringe hit My Left/Right Foot (Birds of Paradise/National Theatre of Scotland), which was nominated for six Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland.  Her production of Uncanny Valley by Rob Drummond (Borderline/Edinburgh Int’l Science Festival) received the 2016 CATS award for Best Production for Children and Young People.

While an Associate Director for Theatre Uncut she directed the NYC premieres of Anders Lustgarten's The Break Out and Neil LaBute’s In the Beginning at Theatre Row. For the Traverse Theatre, she assisted on the award-winning productions of both Quiz Show by Rob Drummond and Ciara by David Harrower, as well as bringing the Traverse double bill of Orla O'Loughlin's productions of Clean by Sabrina Mahfouz and A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity by Douglas Maxwell to NYC's Brits Off-Broadway festival.  

Other work for theatre includes: Invisible Army by Victoria Beesley (Terra Incognita), The Wakeful Chamber by Rebecca Sharp (A Play, a Pie, a Pint), Potterrow by Martin McCormick (Cumbernauld Theatre) and a radical reimagining of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bard in the Botanics).

She has greatly enjoyed developing new work with Debbie Hannan, Andrew McGregor, Scott Gilmour & Claire MacKenzie (Noisemaker!), Lynda Radley, Megan Tyler, Elspeth Turner, Eve Nichol, Morna Young, Iain Finlay McLeod, Playwrights Studio Scotland, the National Theatre of Scotland, the Traverse Theatre and many RCS students.

 Originally from New York, she spent several seasons with the Merry Go Round Playhouse and Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera and was a founding member of the New York Song & Dance Company, whose work was seen from Carnegie Hall to the Kings Hall in Amman, Jordan. She also worked on the casting teams of Avenue Q (Broadway), The House of Bernarda Alba (Lincoln Centre), Encores! (City Center), Lion King, 42nd Street, and We Will Rock You (Broadway/National Tours).

She holds a BA in Musical Theater from Point Park University and an MA in Classic & Contemporary Text (Directing) from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.