About me

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

An actor, singer, dancer, choreographer, producer, and longform journalist, she enjoys storytelling and connecting others. Her interests outside of performing include community building, baseball, culinary editorial, and watching fridge restocking videos. Someday she hopes to have a sandwich named after her.

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Em was raised in rural Vermont in the small town of South Royalton. Growing up with an eclectic taste in music, she was enrolled in her first dance class at the age of four, quickly discovering her love for dancing and Broadway showtunes.​​ She credits her summers spent at Chandler Music Hall for instilling her love for musical theatre.

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Emily is a teaching artist with the National Asian Artists Project under the tutelage of the legendary Baayork Lee. She  teaches vivacious kindergarten and first graders how to dance at PS 48 in Brooklyn, and leads theatre club at PS 124 Yung Wing in Chinatown. She loves being a mentor to the next generation of creative artists while advocating for a more equitable world of theatre.

 

Training: Broadway Dance Center, Stella Adler Studio, Boston Conservatory at Berklee. B.A. Middlebury College, magna cum laude (Theatre and American Studies, concentrated in Acting and Journalism with dual emphasis in Race & Ethnicity and Cultural Politics). Proud alumni of the national BOLD Women's Leadership Network.​​

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Emily believes that representation matters. She is excited to be a part of a more inclusive age of theatre that stretches away from the Westernized canon and instead champions underrepresented voices of color and diverse stories. She is passionate about new, innovative, and expansive approaches to theater-making and the performing arts.

Reach out for future collaborations or a chat!

 

“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!”