Emily Scott is a film and theatre actress currently living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Originally from the small town of Shelbyville, Indiana, she graduated from Indiana University in May 2014 with a B.A. in Theatre and Drama with a concentration in acting and a minor in sociology. In her time at the university, Emily had the opportunity to work both with fellow students and with theatre artists in the Bloomington community on many theatrical projects, such as Picasso's Women (Jacqueline), The Nina Variations (Nina), and Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead (Van's Sister), among others.
She began working on independent film in college, developing on-camera skills by working on a host of shorts and her first feature-length film, Distorted Transfection (Rhodia), as well as attending the 2013 Campus Movie Festival Finale conference in Los Angeles. Working with professors and theatre artists in her department, Emily thoroughly enjoyed exploring many facets of her field, including the Meisner method, Suzuki training, Stanislavski's method, and experimental theatre, among others. In her scene work in classes, she has performed such material as Shakespeare, Chekhov, Ibsen, Brecht, and Beckett. Her primary area of focus, in both film and theatre, is contemporary realism, but she loves challenging herself with genre work.
Emily moved to Cincinnati in August 2014 to participate in Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati's Acting Internship. There she appeared in ETC's mainstage season in An Iliad (The Muse) and in Sleeping Beauty (Bloom). She was also given the opportunity to understudy several mainstage roles, including Caroline in Detroit '67 and Rosemary Muldoon in Outside Mullingar. The final show in the Ensemble season, which functions as a showcase and capstone performance by the acting interns, was Love and Information by Caryl Churchill, in which Emily was able to showcase her versatility by playing fifteen very different characters. In addition to her theatrical work at ETC, in the fall of 2014, she was cast in her first major feature film in a supporting role as Martha in A Kind of Murder, directed by Andy Goddard and starring Patrick Wilson and Jessica Biel.
After her time as an Acting Intern at ETC, Emily decided to move across the country to the Bay Area to continue her theatrical and film work. Since then, she has worked on many short films and webseries in the area, including some work written and directed by herself. She was cast in a featured role in the Amazon pilot Budding Prospects. She was recently signed by Tonry Talent, a Bay Area acting agency.
In addition to acting, Emily is a screenwriter and director. In the summer of 2011, she directed, produced, stage managed, costumed, and marketed Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, in which she also portrayed Van's Sister. This production helped her to experience many aspects of putting on a production that she was previously unfamiliar with and gave her the confidence to continue to pursue positions on creative teams as well as acting roles within different projects. Emily wrote, co-directed, produced, edited, and acted in a short film entitled The Moments, which gained the distinction of being in the Top Sixteen at Indiana University's 2014 Campus MovieFest. Her latest forthcoming short film, After, is currently in the film festival circuit. Currently, Emily is working as creator, writer, show runner, executive producer, and lead actress in REPRESENT: A Web Series, her series about women in the film industry.
In her free time, Emily enjoys reading, crocheting, learning to play guitar, delving into feminist literature and film, and drinking lots and lots of tea.
Originally from the small town of Shelbyville, Indiana, she graduated from Indiana University in May 2014 with a B.A. in Theatre and Drama with a concentration in acting and a minor in sociology. In her time at the university, Emily had the opportunity to work both with fellow students and with theatre artists in the Bloomington community on many theatrical projects, such as Picasso's Women (Jacqueline), The Nina Variations (Nina), and Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead (Van's Sister), among others.
She began working on independent film in college, developing on-camera skills by working on a host of shorts and her first feature-length film, Distorted Transfection (Rhodia), as well as attending the 2013 Campus Movie Festival Finale conference in Los Angeles. Working with professors and theatre artists in her department, Emily thoroughly enjoyed exploring many facets of her field, including the Meisner method, Suzuki training, Stanislavski's method, and experimental theatre, among others. In her scene work in classes, she has performed such material as Shakespeare, Chekhov, Ibsen, Brecht, and Beckett. Her primary area of focus, in both film and theatre, is contemporary realism, but she loves challenging herself with genre work.
Emily moved to Cincinnati in August 2014 to participate in Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati's Acting Internship. There she appeared in ETC's mainstage season in An Iliad (The Muse) and in Sleeping Beauty (Bloom). She was also given the opportunity to understudy several mainstage roles, including Caroline in Detroit '67 and Rosemary Muldoon in Outside Mullingar. The final show in the Ensemble season, which functions as a showcase and capstone performance by the acting interns, was Love and Information by Caryl Churchill, in which Emily was able to showcase her versatility by playing fifteen very different characters. In addition to her theatrical work at ETC, in the fall of 2014, she was cast in her first major feature film in a supporting role as Martha in A Kind of Murder, directed by Andy Goddard and starring Patrick Wilson and Jessica Biel.
After her time as an Acting Intern at ETC, Emily decided to move across the country to the Bay Area to continue her theatrical and film work. Since then, she has worked on many short films and webseries in the area, including some work written and directed by herself. She was cast in a featured role in the Amazon pilot Budding Prospects. She was recently signed by Tonry Talent, a Bay Area acting agency.
In addition to acting, Emily is a screenwriter and director. In the summer of 2011, she directed, produced, stage managed, costumed, and marketed Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead, in which she also portrayed Van's Sister. This production helped her to experience many aspects of putting on a production that she was previously unfamiliar with and gave her the confidence to continue to pursue positions on creative teams as well as acting roles within different projects. Emily wrote, co-directed, produced, edited, and acted in a short film entitled The Moments, which gained the distinction of being in the Top Sixteen at Indiana University's 2014 Campus MovieFest. Her latest forthcoming short film, After, is currently in the film festival circuit. Currently, Emily is working as creator, writer, show runner, executive producer, and lead actress in REPRESENT: A Web Series, her series about women in the film industry.
In her free time, Emily enjoys reading, crocheting, learning to play guitar, delving into feminist literature and film, and drinking lots and lots of tea.
