Esme Sears

Actor ● Director ● Musician ● Poet ● Singer

Esme is managed by JBR 

 

Esme’s acting range is extraordinary; we’ve seen her play an astonishing array of roles in a huge variety of styles and productions. She moves seamlessly through genres and mediums embracing every challenge.

But her talents don’t stop at performing, and in recent years Esme has enjoyed pushing beyond her boundaries and has turned her hand to directing, teaching and writing….

As assistant director, Esme assisted Nicholas Kent on Grenfell: System Failure and, most recently, assisted Sarah Brigham on the UK Tour of Of Mice and Men, a co-production between Bolton Octagon, Hull Truck, Derby Theatre and Theatre by the Lake. Her own directing projects include Spectrum for the Creo Theatre Festival, Do You Get Your Hair Permed at Arena Wolverhampton.

She recently returned to her work as a narrator, lenmding her voice to Ashley Thorpe’s Jamaica-set Young Adult novel Spirit Warriors, which saw Esme tap into her Caribbean heritage.

Esme made her Wigmore Hall concert debut as an emerging classical soprano in An Inconvenient Black History of British Musical Theatre in 2021, and she recently released a stunning new piece of work, a poetic film entitled Embrace the Liminal, that she wrote and conceived.