Emily's Info
Resident faculty & coach for over a decade in cities & theaters on all of the coasts (ImprovBoston, iOWest, Union Comedy, Boston/Los Angeles/North Carolina, Impro Theater, plus festivals & traveling any/everywhere as a visiting teacher/coach). Workshops at fests, including Tiny Funny Women Fest (MN), Pirates of Dombori Bay (Tokyo), Tucson Comedy Arts Fest, HUGE theater (MN) & more.Adjunct Faculty/Advisor in Clark University's Visual & Performing Arts Dept for 6 yrs, where I developed curriculum for the departmental prereq (semester-long, bi-weekly course open to freshmen/sophmore).
Touring Company performer at ImprovBoston, Union Comedy and former DSI Theater, facilitating corporate training and customized applied improv programs, performing personally tailored shows for corporate clients, schools, private parties & more; leading school workshops and bday parties, wrote curriculum for summer camp and other youth programs.
more street cred: built 8-week youth summer program for the Worcester Housing Authority, created partnership with ICCD Clubhouse Int'l, Club Nova in NC, and so on...
I am hyper-perceptive, active & interactive, forward-focused, honest mama bear of my kids (who are often adults & older than me). My classes/workshops are wholeheartedly challenging. I aim to create (with the group) a safe, collaborative dynamic that requires accountability of each other, blind support in successes & wipe outs equally, respect, and patience with themselves learning a new language. Intuitively maintain awareness of the group & each person's boundaries/vulnerabilities/safety. I will never let you get away with playing safe or avoiding the innate frequent failure of improv - and only promise to meet you where you're at, never mine, encouraging one more try. ANYWAYS....my students shows make me more nervous/excited than any show I've ever done; I am that #1 mama bear loudest fan.
I swear when I teach, Boston sarcasm I'm aware does not always play well with others (we're working on it), constantly snacking, a hyped up corny girlie for those magical *clicks* in new improviser eyes when their gut kicks in and their eyes are beaming with that passion/fire of self-pride. Does this make sense? AMA
"Honestly one of the funniest people I've had the pleasure of meeting. She kept the class engaged and in good spirits, and was not afraid to laugh at herself, which I think made us all like her that much more" - Level 201 Student
"I had Emily as a teacher for ImprovBoston's improv 201 and 301. She has an uncanny ability to see what your strengths and weaknesses are right out of the gate, and knows when to push you further with what you need to work on and higher with what you're innately skilled in. She is an incredible improviser on stage - but for me, more importantly, by the end of those two classes with Emily, I felt like I was a stronger performer and a funnier person." - Kelsey
"She had a great sense of what my comfort zone was and where some of my character and performance boundaries are and she did challenge them and pushed me to go beyond them. I gained a sense of how I could comfortably go beyond where I was coming into this class." - Level 201 Student
