Oliver Emanuel was born in Kent, attended Street Gregory"s Catholic Comprehensive School in Tunbridge Wells, studied English and Studies at University of Leeds (1998–2001) before going on to take the Masters in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia (2001-2002).
He was Writer-on-Attachment at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2006 and Writer-in-Residence for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 Children in Need in 2010. He has lived in Glasgow since 2006. In addition to his radio and stage plays below, Oliver Emanuel has written two plays for Polmont Young Offenders Institute, Ship of Shadows (October 2009) and John (7 May 2010), and scripted the short film This Way Up.
