Awards
Set Design
Dublin Fringe 2023: Nominated - Best Set Designer - “What is Not Ours to Carry”
Irish Times Irish Theatre Award 2010: Nominated - Set Design - “Don Juan in Hell” and “Revengers Tragedy”
Film/Animation
PuppetOscope International Film Festival 2025: Winner - Best Fiction Film - “The Room of Forgotten Voices”
Animation Dingle 2025: Nominated - Best Game Trailer - “Éalú”
Richard Harris International Film Festival 2021: Winner - best animated short - “Marcach Dearg”
Reviews
Film/Animation
4 out of 5 stars, David Reviews May 2022, “Tomcat Disposables”
”This intriguing promo for 'Tomcat Disposables' is a labour of love from artist Will Wood and director/animator
Ivan Fisher-Owen. The piece is comprised of delicate, hand-crafted stop motion, following a mouse through a
journey to assemble a complex wooden puzzle.”
Puppet Theatre
“Pupa mixes “puppetry, mask, ceramics, song and film” to create a work that takes people’s
perceptions about (dis)ability and shines a mirror on topics that are not talked about enough in society.”
Brighton Fringe Review of “The Bright Side of the Moon”
“The overall feel of this piece is satisfyingly beautiful,
enchanting, charming and delicate”
Irish Theatre Magazine’s review of “Turning Turtles”
“...mesmerising and enlightening.....The show’s use of marionette, rod, hand
and shadow puppetry is quite magical and entirely captivating”
“Emma Fisher’s and Daragh Bradshaw’s set design is a
feat in visual art”
Éalú (Videogame)
RTÉ: New games reviewed: Irish-made Éalú is a must-play puzzler
Stop Motion Magazine: Éalú – A Handcrafted Stop-Motion Puzzle Adventure
Rock Paper Shotgun: Explore a puppetmaker's fear of "dark or fruitless" digital conditioning….
Game Boomers: Review by Flotsam
Adventure Game Hotspot: It’s worth forking over some cheddar for this short but charming stop-motion puzzler…
GameDaily: Ealu: A Handmade Stop-Motion Journey Through Puzzles, Emotion, and Escape
Noobfeed: Beyond the Bark's debut brings a wooden world of wonder, danger, and deep emotion to life.
The Tartan: Is there cheese in the great beyond? Nine out of 10 stop motion mice say yes!
Set Design
Chris McCormac’s 2025: Best Theatre of the year
Honerable mention, set design for Wreckquiem
The Irish Times 2025 review of “Wreckquiem”
“Behind the record shop – a bright haven designed by Emma Fisher”
The Hidden Track 2025 review of “Wreckquiem”
“Set Designer Emma Fisher and Lighting Designer Zia Bergin-Holly did a phenomenal job
bringing it to life… At key moments during the play, lights animate these visual elements,
letting the room itself become part of the story —especially that cross-like feature.”
The Irish Times 2019 review of “Bread Not Profits”
“Emma Fisher, Zia Bergin-Holly and John Galvin, with original music by David Blake, use
the Cleeves space to create something that is truly exceptional in both scale and content.”
The Irish Times 2014 review of “A Most Peculiar Wintry Thing”
“Emma Fisher provides ingenious live animation, and the appearance of a giant Brussels
sprout looking over her projections makes for great visual comedy to counterpoint some of
the more sombre music.”
Irish Theatre Magazine 2010 review of “Soh”
“A visually intriguing set designed by Emma Fisher provides physical representations of
the onstage themes. Colored ribbons extend long and plentifully from an old typewriter.
Flashes of red, yellow and purple as they move, changing the dimensions of the space. All
elements coalesce in this intimate glance at the workings of our human hearts.”
Irish Theatre Magazine 2010 review of Belltable Hub shows
“Emma Fisher’s transformative designs for The Fisherman’s Son, Don Juan in Hell and The Revenger’s
Tragedy used every inch of the limited theatre space, drawing the eye up to its farthest
corners, and inviting the imagination to roam down through the concrete floor or suggestively
up through the ceiling.”