Emma Fisher is a theatre designer, puppeteer and stop motion animator. She has recently been nominated for best set design at the Dublin Fringe 2023 for What is Not Ours to Carry (Ali Clarke). She set up Beyond the Bark, an inclusive animation and puppet theatre in 2006 that creates work for old and young audiences. She co-creates and designs for theatre for young audiences on a number of Ceol Connected shows including The Land of a Hundred Little Hills which just touring Ireland. Her film Marcach Dearg funded by the Arts Council Covid Award won best animated short at the Richard Harris International Film Festival 2021. Emma was nominated Irish Times Set Designer in 2010 for Revengers Tragedy (Bottom Dog) and Don Juan in Hell (Limerick Hub).
Recent theatre productions include Freefalling (Rough Magic/Lime Tree), The Land of a Hundred Little Hills (Ceol Connected), Wunderground (Ceol Connected), Treehouse (Ceol Connected), Bread not Profits by Gúna Nua (which won the Irish Times Theatre Audience Choice Award). Recent animations include The Land of a Hundred Little Hills (Ceol Connected), Pigeon on a Gate (Ceol Conneced), Marcach Dearg (Beyond the Bark), Good Nightmorning (Beyond the Bark), I am a Hill (Beyond the Bark), An Fharraige (Puca Puppets, Beyond the Bark and Ceol Connected) and Awake (Beyond the Bark).
