Emmy McMorrow on acting, personality types, spirituality and living in the moment

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About this episode

This week we talk to Emmy McMorrow. Emmy is British actor, writer and producer. Having trained at the prestigious Guildhall School of Music and Drama, she went on to work as a TV actor, with roles in the BBC and in independent feature films. She has written scripts for channels such ITV and currently co-manages a film production company called Smoulder Productions.

We talk to Emmy about her acting and writing career, her shift in energy and priorities upon hearing she will soon be a mother, as well as her spiritual outlook.

We discuss the topic of mental health in great depth, including her own journey, society’s attitude towards mental health and how she works to raise awareness of it.

A wide array of topics are covered including discovering passions, how perspective and attitude to the outside world changes over our lifetimes and careers, how we can all better understand our own personality type and what purpose means for her.

Key topics:

• Acting - one of Emmy’s true callings / her purpose (01:20)
• The feeling acting gives Emmy (06:54)
• Career shifts and attitudes (09:23)
• Mental health, new projects and raising awareness (13:15)
• Spirituality, fate and changes in perception (20:00)
• Changing priorities (30:15)
• Highly Sensitive People (28:10)

Book recommendations:

- Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch

- The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You by Elaine Aron The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer

Personal bio and links:

Emmy's earliest memory is looking behind the family TV set, and asking her Mum how the people got inside the box because she wanted to be in there too. This passion for film swiftly developed into a lifelong ambition and Emmy went on to train professionally in Acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, graduating in 2005.

Emmy's body of work as an actor includes Spooks, Doctors and Holby City for the BBC, and independent British feature films, such as Simon (2016), Jane Linfoot’s feature debut The Incident (2016), Pericles by the Road (2017) and Infirmus (2017).

Emmy came to writing in her late twenties. Her first project, The Smoke, started life as sketches jotted in 2006 and eventually sold on an option to ITV Productions in 2012. A co-production development deal between Smoulder and ITV was agreed under its co-founder, Abigail Boyd, with Emmy being attached to the central role of Bex.

In 2013, Emmy worked as a production assistant on the short film, Mother’s Day, for a SANDS charity short, and on music videos for the jazz band, Katz & Dawgs.

In 2016, she re-established Smoulder Productions alongside Jon Thompson. Emmy wrote a first draft of a romantic comedy in 2014, which sat in some lonely, dusty corner of her laptop until Smoulder hired talented newcomer, Dominic David Burgess, to redraft it under the working title of A Certain Romance.

Emmy is currently working on her first feature film, 3 Months, 3 Marks & a Ring, a semi-autobiographical, asphalt-black romantic comedy set in New York City fall 2016 against the backdrop of political controversy.

http://www.smoulderproductions.co.uk/index.html

https://meloncomedy.com/

Emmy is represented by Vivienne Clore Management

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