From Small Town Vermont to the Big City

Emily (김순지) is a New York City–based, Korean American adoptee,
multi-hyphenate creative, performer, and educator.

An actor, singer, dancer, choreographer, longform journalist, and educator, Emily thrives on storytelling and building connections. Offstage, she enjoys community organizing, baseball, culinary editorial, and watching fridge restocking videos. (Someday, she hopes to have a sandwich named after her.)

Raised in the small, rural town of South Royalton, Vermont, Emily grew up with eclectic musical tastes and a deep love of Broadway showtunes. She took her first dance class at age four and spent many formative summers at Chandler Music Hall, where her passion for musical theatre took root.

Emily is a proud teaching artist with the National Asian Artists Project under the mentorship of the legendary Baayork Lee. She teaches joyful movement to kindergartners and first graders at PS 48 in Brooklyn and leads the theatre club at PS 124 Yung Wing in Chinatown. As a mentor and educator, she is committed to nurturing the next generation of creative artists and advocating for a more equitable theatre landscape.

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This fall, Emily begins her graduate studies as an M.S.Ed. candidate in Childhood General and Special Education at Bank Street Graduate School of Education, with a focus on progressive, social justice–minded teaching.

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Training: Broadway Dance Center, STEPS on Broadway, Movers Bodega, Stella Adler Studio, Boston Conservatory at Berklee (Summer Intensive).

Education: B.A., Middlebury College, magna cum laude (Theatre and American Studies,
concentrations in Acting, Journalism, Race & Ethnicity, and Cultural Politics).
BOLD Women’s Leadership Network alumna.

Emily believes deeply in the power of representation. She is committed to building a more inclusive and expansive theatre—one that stretches beyond the Western canon to celebrate underrepresented voices and stories of color. She is passionate about innovative, community-rooted approaches to theatre-making and the performing arts.

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Please reach out to connect or collaborate!

“The time to be happy is now, the place to be happy is here,
and the way to be happy is to make others happy!”

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