Emma Moran
Emma Moran is an Irish screenwriter and comedian from County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland. She is best known as the creator and writer of 2023 Hulu comedy series Extraordinary.
Early life
From Killadeas, a village a few miles north of Enniskillen in County Fermanagh, Moran attended Enniskillen Collegiate Grammar School. She moved to London to complete an undergraduate degree at the University College London. Moran relocated for her post-grad degree, graduating with an MA in Screenwriting from the University of Manchester in 2020.Career
Moran started performing stand-up comedy whilst at University and performed a sketch show Galpals at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival with comedy partner Sarah King.Moran wrote and produced comedy sketches for digital publisher The Hook and became part of the BBC's Comedy Room development group in 2019, following an application process in which she was selected from 2,728 received scripts. There, she was involved in writing for BBC comedy shows such as Have I Got News For You and Newsjack. She has guested on long-running BBC Radio 4 show Loose Ends, hosted by Clive Anderson and Emma Freud. Moran has also appeared as a guest on The Ryan Tubridy Show, a programme that was formerly broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1, part of RTÉ, the state broadcaster of the Republic of Ireland.
Moran started writing the screenplay that became the Disney+ television series Extraordinary during her master's degree in Manchester. Initially, it was a flat share comedy without any superhero elements. After starting the script in 2020 she continued writing it during the lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic and called it her ‘lockdown baby’. With the script she won the inaugural Thousand Films scriptwriting competition.