Emily
ERICKSON
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A BRIEF HISTORY
Emily Erickson is an actor, music director, vocal coach, and composer based in New York City and Washington, DC. She holds a BFA in Drama from New York University where she studied in the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, Experimental Theatre Wing, and the Classical Studio and an MFA in Classical Acting from the ACA at Shakespeare Theatre Company and George Washington University. As an actor, Emily's strengths and passions lie in Shakespeare and classical work, musical theater, and new play development. (In other words: Throw her some verse, a brand-new character to create, or some strong mix/belt material and she's a happy camper.)
As a theatre educator, Emily has worked at NYU, directly assisting Daniel Spector in the Classical Studio in the Department of Drama. She has also worked as an accompanist and teaching artist at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Atlantic Acting School, and A Class Act New York. Emily runs a private voice and audition coaching business in New York and remotely. During the pandemic, Emily built this studio out to include a popular series (ON VOICE) of group voice classes in both speaking and singing.
As a music director and composer, Emily has worked in nearly a dozen U.S. cities including New York, Houston, Detroit, Provincetown, DC, and Los Angeles. She has composed original music for new plays at Cherry Lane Theatre, Lenfest Center for the Arts, and New York University, and written vocal arrangements for composers the likes of Alexander Sage Oyen, Mark Hollmann, Aviva Jaye, and more. She is currently working on two full-length musicals Pentangle and The Sandfairy with writing partners Delaney Amatrudo and Jenna Hoffmann, respectively.
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NEWS
September 2021
Emily is music directing a workshop production of new musical Good Luck in Space by writing team Mark Hollmann and Greg Kotis at the Institute for American Musical Theatre. Directed by Meghan Finn.
September 2021
Emily is serving as the Female Swing on the Labor Heritage Foundation's production of Working: A Musical at the AFL-CIO on Black Lives Matter Plaza. For tickets, dates, and cast information please visit: http://workingindc.org
August 2021
Emily is playing Math Monster in Adventure Theatre's workshop production of Fantastagirl and the Math Monster directed by Nadia Guevara.
June 2021
Emily is playing Brutus in Julius Caesar directed by Craig Wallace and Vagrant & Musician in The Cherry Orchard directed by Aaron Posner in the Academy for Classical Acting's summer repertory productions.
December 2020
Emily is playing Antigonus in The Academy for Classical Acting's filmed hybrid production of The Winter's Tale. She is also composing original music for the piece. Directed by Shanara Gabrielle. YouTube live streams December 9th and 10th.
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In rehearsal for Julius Caesar
with Director Craig Wallace
January 2020
Emily is serving as the Associate Music Director for the inaugural season of The J2 Spotlight Musical Theater Company under Music Director Grant Strom. The season will run January - March 2020 and consists of short runs of Seesaw, No Strings, and A Class Act. For tickets, dates, and more information please visit: https://www.j2spotlightnyc.com/
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Vinegar Tom / Powerhouse Apprentice Company
A favorite photo in DC
Science! The Musical
24: A Work In Progress / NYU Experimental Theatre Wing
The Winter's Tale / Academy for Classical Acting
Elegies for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens / Peregrine Theatre Ensemble
Vinegar Tom / Powerhouse Apprentice Company
On set of Our Last Today
Performing original music at The Bitter End
Teaching at Eugene O'Neill Theater Center
West End Lounge
Hell and High Water / Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute
Contact High / Theater 511 @ Ars Nova
Wright / FLTMF's The PiTCH Series
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Chicago / Peregrine Theatre Ensemble
Violet / Playwrights Downtown
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