Emma Thompson speaks with Helen Shaw

On October 26, 2025, actress and writer Emma Thompson joins author Helen Shaw for a discussion at the 26th Annual New Yorker Festival, a weekend filled with talks, screenings, screenings, and more. The festival, the magazine’s signature event, was held in New York City and brought together leading voices in literature, film, comedy, television, politics and medicine.

Emma ThompsonOBE, is one of the world’s most respected creative talents. She is the only artist to have won Academy Awards for both acting (Best Actress for “Howards End”) and screenwriting (“Sense and Sensibility”). Her film credits also include “The Remains of the Day” and “In the Name of the Father,” for which she received Academy Award nominations; “Good Luck to You, Leo Grande,” which received award nominations BAFTA And a Golden Globe Award. and Nanny McPhee, among others. This year she will star in two exciting films: “The Dead of Winter,” which will premiere in September, and “Down Cemetery Road,” which will premiere in October. Thompson chairs the Helen Bamber Foundation, supports and is elected by Greenpeace, and serves as a patron of the Food Foundation.

Helen Shaw, The New YorkerTheater critic, joined the magazine in 2022. She was previously a theater critic at New York Its culture is vertical, eagle. She has also written about theater and performance for 4Columns and Time Out New Yorkand contributed in New York sun, American theatreNew York The Times Book Review, The Village Voice, Art in America, and artforum. She received the 2025 Grace Dudley Award for her contributions to The New Yorkerand won the George Jean Nathan Prize for Dramatic Criticism for the year 2017-2018.