Emma Adams

@emmabob3.bsky.social

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Playwright/Screenwriter, Dramaturg & Core Team Member at The Writing Squad. Will sometimes share my sketches here too. Returning runner after a long time out. Agent: Meg Davis at The KiAgency. Links 👉🏻 https://bio.site/Emmabob3 . 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸

A drawing of a tree and a horse. It's a massive splash of uncontrollable colour
A terrifying sketch of Claudia winkleman. She looks possessed.
A absolutely ridiculous line drawing of the wellington sketch in Glasgow (he sits on a horse and he always has a traffic cone on its head - it's a Glasgow tradition. I love Glasgow). The horse and rider are entirely out of proportion. The page has a scribbled message of failed and Wellington on it to
A live ink and wash sketch of an older woman in a wooly hat, sitting in a wheelchair, holding her handbag. She's looking away to the side.
An ink and watercolour sketch - 3 horses stand near the corner of a wall. A water tub stands in the field too. Beyond are two sheep. Further out there is a hillside with trees, telegraph poles and a pylon. Further out still is a hill with houses on.
A sketch of a tall red vase holding winter green type foliage (suggestions of coniferous branches and holly) flanked by little festive deer. All stand on top of a mantle piece.
Ink and watercolour sketch of a dark haired man with moustache in blue top and green trousers sitting on an orange chair at a hotel desk with a mirror in front of him. On the desk is a short music keyboard and a laptop. There are two views of this scene in the sketch - one where the man is in profile and one where we see him from behind and his face is reflected in the mirror in front of him.
An ink sketch of a row of houses (some with lights glowing in the window) and a stormy sky as dusk arrives.
Ink sketch of a guy on the train sitting in a seat, a bag by his side. He's holding and looking at his mobile phone. He's got headphones on and a water bottle on the table in front of him.
A QR code that you can use, to watch a reel on Instagram about #otherhoodplay that toured Bradfrord as part of #Bradford2025CityofCulture.
It's a digital sketch of my black and white cat (with pink nose and tiny bit of pink on her ear). She's called Lara Darling, and she is sleeping.
An ink and watercolour sketch of a street looking towards a cathedral in the distance. A large street light stands in the foreground. A big old cloud sits in an otherwise blue sky.
A black and white sketch of our lighting designer Tom Blackband sitting behind his desk and computer
A half finished, black and white sketch of @oldbirdtheatre.bsky.social director Deborah Pakkar-Hull being interviewed by Irene Kaali yesterday. To the left is a tripod with a phone on it. To the right is Deborah with back to us and Irene partly in view stands behind to her side.
The full moon last night. The marker pen drawing is of the night sky with trees in silhouette. The moon is low and reflected in a purple canal next to a barge. Everything is covered in swirling lines.
A photo of pillars outside a building (it's the everyman theatre in Liverpool). Each one has a poster on it. The poster nearest is blue, with three people (one appears female / black, one non binary white, the last male white) superimposed with line drawings of creatures. In yellow writing it says the walrus has a right to adventure and by Billie Collins on it.
Black and white sketch of a writer leaning on the table writing
Black and white sketch of writers talking
Black and white sketch of a Palestine protestors at the #gaza demo in #manchester yesterday
A red white and black graphic (overlain with blue words that read week 2 update). The graphic reads: MAP 207% funded. Target £400. Raised so far £827. Number of dinars 16. Total distance so far 38.3KM. Target distance 107KM
A screen grab of my MAP (medical aid for palestine) sponsor page. A red circle with 199% funded. Below this reads target £400. Raised so far £797. Number of donors 14. Overlaid across this image in black it reads - week one update.
A page with several black and white sketches across it. There is a sketch of Haworth graveyard with many gravestones. There's a sketch of chickens feeding from a bucket. There are the words 'a day out seeing wild uplands in Haworth ' there are some sketches of the jins art piece called 'children of smokeless fire' that are part of wild uplands.
A black and white ink sketch of a goose by the edge of the canal, wild plants and grass flank the goose.
A sketch of a dandelion plant with the word dandilion next to it in red. It is only now that I realise I spelt dandelion wrongly. Here we are.
An ink and watercolour sketch of a hillside covered in grass and heather with an oak tree and wall in the mid ground and a looming blue gray sky.
A scribble of line on lined paper. There is a face, hair and a sense of a body and a hand writing on paper emerging from this mess. Or at least that's the story I am sticking too.
Soluble purple pink and green intense bar sketch of alliums with the word alliums at the side. Vibe is soft and dreamy
An ink and watercolour colour sketch of a workshop with a living roof, flanked by a holy tree
A great big blue and steel gray sky above a London city skyline drawn with ink and watercolour wash
A black ink and wash sketch on gray paper. 3 men sit at desks at Leeds Library. One reads a book. One scrolls his phone. One eats and rummages in his plastic bags.
A pigeon sits on a lamppost. The sky is blue and cloudy gray around it. The sketch is still wet and not yet dried.
An ink sketch of a magnolia bush in a pot, next to two smaller pots with dots of herbs. The sketch is surrounded by turquoise blue.
An ink and blue soluble crayon sketch of a skyline in Sheffield. The sky is blue with some clouds.Tower blocks, a tree and a lamppost sit in the skyline. A person walking two dogs is in the mid ground. The foreground is left blank.
A black and white photo of a computer screen, that reads : Otherhood by Old Bird: Casting call. Below this reads - Overview. We are seeking two performers to work with us on Otherhood an exciting new show exploring stories of childlessness. This show will go into production in autumn 2025 touring theatres and community spaces across Bradford District as a part of Bradford 2025 City of Culture.
A big tree in a field. A blue sky. A dog walker just walking out of frame.
A crayon sketch of compost bins and a rotting work bench surrounded by emerging flowers and grasses.
A crayon and soluble crayon sketch of blue and purple carry baskets (one filled with water and pink blossom leaves, one filled with soil and weeds) sitting in an bed that has gone crazy with shoots, grass and emerging tulips
A pen and watercolour wash sketch of the big tree and flats near where I live. There's a single decker bus in the background
A messy sketch of an electric and acoustic guitar with a red background, drawn with crayons
A drawing of a silver birch tree on gray paper, drawn with white, silver and black crayons
An ink and crayon drawing of the space around two toad patrol members picking up a toad. The crayon colours are bright red and blue with greens and orange around the bodies of the people.
A dead tree with mushrooms growing on it painted on gray paper with watercolour and ink white and black inks
Another sketch of the burnt out Victorian mansion house. This one is just ink on paper.
A watercolour sketch of an old burnt out Victorian mansion house on a grassy hill
An ink and wash sketch of our spaniel Tucker.
A graphite sketch of moments from the Gladiators TV show. One side shows Bionic's face, the other is a sketch of the two presenters interviewing twi contestants while sat on a big crash mat
A black and white sketch of folks at a round table with stuff they said written around them. Including - be generous/never respond to a note immediately. Ask 'what do you want the note to do?' and 'we watch TV for relationships'.
Two people with bobble hats and hi Viz jackets lean over a bucket in the process of picking a toad up and off the road.
A soluble graphite sketch of a David Hockney exhibition in a museum space
A watercolour and ink sketch of some young dudes climbing freestyle on rocks. One hangs looking for the next hand hole while two watch from below.
An ink and watercolour colour sketch of a house and hillside in north Yorkshire. The sun is low, close to sunset.
A quick sketch of a man with a beard wearing a hoodie
Soluble pencil sketch of pigeons in various poses. Scribbled frustated words around the birds read 'very hard to draw. They are never still'.
Water soluble crayon and ink drawing of 3 people standing on a hill top, looking towards the distance. They are surrounded by a big blue sky.
Daffodils in watercolour with frustrated splashes of green and blue around them.
A drawing of the writing squad's marketing image (half a mannequin head with sunglasses on, with ideas and emojis and sweets and lightening and pens exploding out of the top half) - because we are recruiting right now. So if you know any young people in the north of England, 16-22 then get them to search online for 'the writing squad' and apply. 2 years FREE one to one support, facilitation and community that goes on beyond the 2 year period. I know! Right!
A watercolour and ink sketch of an electric guitar lent on an orange amp next to an acoustic guitar
A gray white and black sketch of a little village, seen from afar
A drawing of a dummy's head that wears purple round glasses, and is surrounded by circles.. exploding out of the head is all kinds of objects like pens clouds lightening awards plants. The words 'aged 16-22 and write' are printed below.
Section of a drawing done of a night view of Bradford in the distance from Micklethwaite. In the foreground is a telegraph pole. On gray paper, white crayon and soluble graphite