Emily Jane Boyle is a Choreographer, Movement Director and Intimacy Director.

She creates movement and dance for theatre, musical theatre, film, television, editorials, commercials and large-scale events.

“Emily Jane Boyle’s choreography is as street-smart as a latter-day West Side Story.”

Neil Cooper, The Herald
(Sunshine on Leith, Leeds Playhouse)

The Crown

Director Philip MartinCreator Peter Morgan Cast Claire Foy, Matt Smith, Victoria Hamilton, Vanessa Kirby

Choreographer
Netflix
Philip Martin

God Help The Girl

Director Stuart MurdochDirector of Photography Giles NuttgensProducer Barry Mendel Cast Emily Browning, Olly Alexander and Hannah Murray

Choreographer
Barry Mendel Productions
Stuart Murdoch

Leopoldstadt

Writer Tom StoppardDirector Patrick MarberDesigner Richard HudsonLighting Designer Neil AustinComposer and Sound Designer Adam CorkProjection Design Issac Madge“Leopoldstadt is a beautifully crafted play and the production (director Patrick Marber) does it justice....

Movement Director
Sonia Friedman Productions / Wyndham’s Theatre / Longacre Broadway
Patrick Marber

Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of)

Director Isobel McArthur and Simon HarveyDesigner Ana Inés Jabares-PitaLighting Designer Colin GrenfellMusical Supervisor and Sound Design Michael John McCarthySound Design Luke Swaffield for AutographComedy Staging Jos HoubenPhotography by Mihaela Bodovic"As the...

Choreographer
Criterion Theatre / UK Tour
Isobel McArthur and Simon Harvey

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Director James Brining“The musical numbers are staged with invention and humour, crisply choreographed by Emily Jane Boyle” Allan Radcliffe, The Times

Choreographer
Leeds Playhouse / UK Tour
James Brining

Adults

Director Roxana Silbert

Movement Director and Intimacy Director
Traverse Theatre
Roxana Silbert

Kidnapped

Movement Director
National Theatre of Scotland
Gareth Nichols and Isobel McArthur

Henry VI: Rebellion and War of the Roses

Director Owen HorsleyDesigner Stephen Brimson LewisCostume Designer Hannah ClarkLighting Designer Simon SpencerMusic Paul EnglishbySound Designer Steven Atkinson

Movement Director
Royal Shakespeare Company
Owen Horsley

Measure for Measure

Director Blanche McIntyreDesigner James CotterillComposer Tim SuttonSound Designer Steven Atkinson

Movement Director
Shakespeare’s Globe
Blanche McIntyre

The Mirror and the Light

Director Jeremy HerrinDesigner Christopher OramLighting Designer Jessica Hun Han YunComposer Stephen WarbeckSound Designer Nick Powell"Herrin and movement director Emily Jane Boyle arrange the characters in formation, like chess pieces, and as Cromwell’s fate looms,...

Movement Director
Royal Shakespeare Company
Jeremy Herrin

Still Game: Live

Director Michael Hines"And by the time Isa drinks some accidental magic-mushroom soup, triggering the show’s mind-bowing Bollywood finale, the audience is enjoying the night of its life.." Joyce McMillian, The Scotsman

Choreographer
Phil McIntyre / SSE Glasgow Hydro
Michael Hines

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Director Dominic HillDesigner Rachael CanningComposer Paddy CunneenLighting Designer Ben OrmerodSound Design Jay Jones and Simon Baker“Tightly delivered comedy and impeccably executed physical theatre inspires a constant stream of laughter.” Culture Whisperer"This...

Movement Director
Regents Park Open Air Theatre
Dominic Hill

Exit The King

Director Patrick MarberDesigner Anthony WardLighting Design Hugh VanstoneSound Design Adam Cork“Vivaciously performed and full of regal ritual.” Michael Billington, Guardian

Movement Director
National Theatre
Patrick Marber

Wilf

Choreographer
Traverse Theatre
Gareth Nichols

Talent

Movement Director and Intimacy Support
Sheffield Crucible
Paul Foster

Nora: A Doll’s House

Director Elizabeth FreestoneDesigner Tom PiperComposer and Sound Designer Michael John McCarthyLighting Designer Lee Curran“The scene in the original play in which Nora contrives to dance with her husband becomes here a playful demonstration of how tastes have...

Movement Director
Citizens Theatre / Young Vic
Elizabeth Freestone

Trainspotting

Director Gareth Nichols"Renton delivers the famous “choose life” speech to the sound of New Order’s Blue Monday, not long before the stage explodes into a techno-fuelled rave populated with a club’s worth of young dancers (sharply choreographed by EJ Boyle)." Mark...

Movement Director
Citizens Theatre
Gareth Nichols

Sunshine on Leith

Director James Brining"In an early Edinburgh street scene, as returning squaddies Davy and Ally weave past joggers, leaflet-pushers, buskers and coffee-guzzlers, Emily-Jane Boyle’s choreography brilliantly evokes the bustle of city pavements – real city pavements, not...

Choreographer
Leeds Playhouse / UK Tour
James Brining

Forest Boy

Movement Director
Noisemaker / New York Musical Festival
Robert McQueen

Oresteia: This Restless House

Director Dominic HillDesigner Colin RichmondLighting Designer Ben OrmerodComposer Nikolai Kodjabashia Photography by Tim Morozzo“A cleverly used ensemble. Dominic Hill’s direction is imaginative and clear-sighted, with EJ Boyle’s movement direction and EmmaClaire...

Movement Director
Citizens Theatre / Edinburgh International Festival
Dominic Hill

Cuttin’ A Rug

Director Caroline PatersonDesigner Kenny MillerLighting Designer Grant Anderson"Paterson’s production is all the more engaging for its snappy pace and deft choreography of a large cast, which responds with committed performances.” Allan Radcliffe, The Times"Caroline...

Choreographer
Citizens Theatre
Caroline Paterson

The Cheviot, The Stag and The Black Black Oil

Director Joe Douglas"What is most striking is that, for all the play's consciously roughshod form, beneath its veneer is something expertly crafted" Neil Cooper, The Herald"Its attraction, now as then, lies in its being a work of “ceilidh-theatre” which combines...

Movement Director
Dundee Rep / UK Tour
Joe Douglas

Lanark

Director Graham Eatough"Bolder and more stylised than most theatre...a superbly drilled and exhilaratingly confident piece of ensemble theatre." Martin Hoyle, The Financial Times"Superb choreography by EJ Boyle." Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman

Movement Director
Citizens Theatre / Edinburgh International Festival
Graham Eatough

Jumpy

Movement Director
Royal Lyceum Edinburgh
Cora Bissett

Hedda Gabler

Director Amanda GaughanDirector Amanda GaughanDirector Amanda Gaughan

Movement Director
Royal Lyceum Edinburgh
Amanda Gaughan

Ben Hur Live

Associate Choreographer
Fiera di Rome            
Philip Wm. McKinley

“He is not alone in having strong comedy chops..Even the choreographer is in on the act – Emily Jane Boyle’s dance sequences are hilarious in their quirkiness (there’s even a bit of the Twist in there).”

Peter Cargill, The Stage
(Much Ado About Nothing, Dundee Rep)