Media Parents

Following on from the question – what do freelancers do when they are not working, meet the casting exec with the best side hustle in the business, writes Media Parents Director Amy Walker.

Casting Exec Emma Smith is one of the funniest people I have met. One of those people who seem effortlessly funny, the ones with funny bones. (I could go on – suffice to say I married one). Working in TV with Emma lifts your soul. I have no doubt that her stand up act “Holding Out for a Hero – the binfire that is modern dating” will rock the aisles of The Hen and Chickens Theatre next week. To buy tickets click here, to win a pair drop a line to @welshalienldn on insta.

Holding Out For A Hero (WIP) is a one woman show about the binfire that is modern dating.

Journalist Emma Smith has been holding out for a hero her entire life. Now she’s in her 40’s, she wants to know where the F*** is he?!  In order to find out, she’s channelling her Welsh soul sister Bonnie with this comedy cabaret romp. Think all singing (well, mostly lip syncing), all dancing meets stand-up-meets-ex-rated-TED-talk.

Alongside her own shambolic love life, she explores the history of dating apps and how they’ve affected our search for love and our behaviour. Is Hinge really ‘designed to be deleted’? Or does it want you to keep you paying a montly subscription? 63% of British singles now use apps, and the industry is worth 165million annually. But are dating apps now dead?

Prepare to find out how Emma got banned from Tinder while on holiday in Sicily. Meander through her slut years and her x-rated whatsapp archive. How did she survive a period of voluntary celibacy? And why did a Thatcherite call her a Feminazi?

“Swipe right on this show.”-CEO of Hinge (probably)

“We banned her.”-CEO of Tinder