My second piece of news here is that I have booked my first acting job after moving to LA two weeks ago! I am working with artist Sophie Jung and an amazing group of other marginalized actors and artists on a devised theatre/performance art piece titled Dramatis Personae. The piece is "​an open-ended collaborative performance installation in which a group of professional actors respond to their experience of typecasting within the film industry. Jung’s performances weave together fragmented narratives around found objects, using these objects and their attributes as a trigger to produce a text that undoes their single story and derails categorical structure."

Emily has relocated to Los Angeles!

After an amazing three years in the Bay Area, Emily made the decision to move to L.A. at the start of 2019. She has enjoyed every bit of time with her friends and collaborators in San Francisco, and especially with her agent Joan Spangler at Look Talent.

But Emily is so excited to be expanding to a bigger market and more opportunities!

Keep an eye on this website for more news about Emily's first L.A. projects and future collaborations!

For any inquiries regarding Emily's acting, writing, or other pursuits, please see the contact page.
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Unmanned is officially in production! 

Unmanned, a new web series from creator Christina Hensley, is about four very different queer women and non-binary folks - Cass, Taylor, Charlie, and Robin - who find themselves building a tight friendship group in the heart of San Francisco.

Emily stars as Cass, a hyper-feminine workaholic who struggles to accept herself as a lesbian. Throughout the series, Cass finds that she can only be herself around her new friends - but will that be enough to keep her internalized self-hatred at bay?

Check out a few behind-the-scenes photos from the first few days of filming! And visit the Unmanned website for more information!

​Exciting new project news! Emily's latest short film has recently entered post-production! "Blossom" is a short drama about Freya and Efren, best friends who decide to step into parenthood together, despite being just friends. When Freya struggles with her fertility, they have to decide whether to continue trying or give up their dream of having a family.

The short is directed and produced by award-winning filmmaker and Emily's frequent collaborator, Marissa Vonn, who also directed Emily in REPRESENT and "In Return". Emily plays Freya alongside Ryan Takemiya as Efren and Jen Floor Mathews as the OB-GYN.

"Blossom" is being produced under Emily and Marissa Vonn's brand new joint production company, Sleepover Pictures! Check out the "Blossom" IMDb page, and keep an eye out for more news regarding Sleepover's future projects!

This past weekend, Emily was honored to attend the Broad Humor Film Festival!  Broad Humor Film Festival is a long-standing festival in Los Angeles celebrating women comedy filmmakers.  The screenplay for REPRESENT, a web series written and created by Emily, was selected as a finalist in the script competition!  Emily attended with Marissa Vonn, one of the directors of REPRESENT (both pictured to the right at the opening night party).  In addition to meeting tons of incredible female filmmakers, a selection from REPRESENT was given a live reading, to extremely positive feedback! 

Below you can see Emily, center, during the screenwriters' Q&A after the script finalist readings.  Emily is so grateful to have had the opportunity to connect with so many amazing women in comedy and film!  Be sure to go to REPRESENT's website to follow along as it continues through the festival circuit!

Emily's short film After was recently chosen as an official selection of the Pictoclik Women in Cinema showcase!

After follows two sisters, Kate and Natalie, who return to their childhood home several months after an epidemic decimates most of the population. Ostensibly, they are there to gather supplies to help them survive in the new world. But both are secretly searching for more.

Emily wrote, directed, produced, and starred in the horror/drama short, in which she appears alongside frequent collaborator Kimberly Hollkamp.  After was also chosen as an official selection of the Cardiff International Film Festival and the Fake Flesh Film Fest.

The short will screen with Pictoclik in San Francisco, as part of a program of several shorts by women filmmakers. Emily will be on hand for a Q&A portion after the screening.

The showcase will take place on August 26, 2018 in San Francisco, and After will be part of the 5:30pm program.  Tickets can be purchased on the Pictoclik website.

The scripts for the first four episodes of REPRESENT have recently been selected to competition at the Broad Humor Film Festival!  The forthcoming 12-episode comedy web series about women in the film industry is written by, produced by, and starring Emily.  More details can be found on the REPRESENT website.

The Broad Humor Film Festival for women in comedy will be in Venice, CA, and it will feature a live reading of an excerpt of REPRESENT.  Click here to buy tickets to the screenwriters' lab to see the reading!