About me

From Small Town Vermont to the Big City

​Emily ( 김순지 ) is a New York City-based Korean American adoptee, multi-hyphenate creative, and performer. An actor, singer, dancer, choreographer, producer, and long-form journalist, she enjoys storytelling and connecting others. Her interests outside of performing and journalism include community building, baseball, comedy, 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 Center for the Arts 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 spent the 2024 school year teaching vivacious kindergarten and first graders at PS 48 in Brooklyn how to dance, and in rehearsals for Annie with elementary theatre club students at PS 124 in Chinatown. She loves being a mentor to the next generation of thespians! When she's not in rehearsals, you can find Emily as the Marketing & Communications Manager for Maestra Music and RISE Theatre, advocating for a more equitable world of musical 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!”