Emily is a multidisciplinary production designer for film and scenic designer for live performance. Prior to design Emily spent over a decade performing internationally as a trapeze artist on numerous stages including Cirque du Soleil’s big-top. Her approach to world building is fueled by her passion for character driven aesthetics, collaborative creation, and long time love affair with transformative stage magic. While completing her MFA, Emily has designed nine short films, six original operas, two plays, one dance piece, and the genre-defying contemporary circus show PlayDead which is currently on its second international tour. She is a recipient of the Concordia University Student Research Award for Sustainability in Theatre and a design fellow of the Great Plains Theatre Conference.
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Selected Work
Production Design for Nina's living room for a reimagining of the film BLACK SWAN, newly set in contemporary Saint Petersburg,…
Nina's bedroom in the reimagined BLACK SWAN production design
Scenic Design for PLAYDEAD, a genre-defying contemporary circus show created by the collective, PeopleWatching
Production Design for the NYU short film, THE FIFTH COLUMN, written and directed by Dzan Harba
Scenic Design for Iphigenia Among the Taurians in the Mitzi Newhouse Theatre
Scenic Design for Iphigenia Among the Taurians in the Mitzi Newhouse Theatre
Production Design work for the ballet Swan Lake, within the final scene of the film BLACK SWAN
Scenic Design for the opera, PAGLIACCI, set in the Koch theatre, Act 1
Scenic Design for the opera, PAGLIACCI, set in the Koch theatre, Act 2
Scenic Design for DROWNING by Maria Irene Fornes set in the Claire Tow Theater
Scenic Design for DROWNING by Maria Irene Fornes set in the Claire Tow Theater
Scenic Design for the NYU Grad Acting Production of, THE FIFTH OF JULY by Lanford Wilson, directed by Ian Belknap