Emily is a classically-trained, Washington, DC - based actor, singer, and teaching artist.
A native Washingtonian, she graduated Magna Cum Laude from Purchase College, State University of New York, with a double major in Theatre and Medieval History/Classical Literature.
A cousin was the late radio and TV actor Billy Idelson, known as recurring star Herman Glimscher on The Dick Van Dyke Show and screenwriter for such beloved classics as The Twilight Zone and The Andy Griffith Show.
Emily has had the privilege of originating multiple new works with several of DC's outstanding emerging playwrights, many of which have gone on to be fully produced. She is also a four-season company member with 42nd Street Singers, a professional costumed, a capella Christmas Caroling group founded in 2011, and a regular collaborator with Tradition Be Damned (TBD) Immersive, DC's first company dedicated entirely to immersive work, founded in 2016.
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