Works

Emily Blake

Theater/New York (selected)

Simone de Beauvoir | Simone | John Houseman

On Sex, Art and Feminism | One-woman Show | Theatre Row

Directions for Making A Round Ark | Singer/Ensemble | DiMenna Center/Irondale

Night of the Living Dead | Narrator/Ensemble | Lincoln Center

A Musical Resurgence | Staged Reading | Harvey Fierstein Studio

Hidden | Sarah/Magda/Petra/Nun | Chain Theater*

L’Avare/The Miser | Frosine | Town Hall*

Dressing Room Divas | Joan Collins | The Duplex

Way Back (Reading) | Graziela | Ensemble Studio Theatre

The Paper (Reading) | Petra | Dramatists Guild

Once Upon a Bus | Robin | Theater at St. Clement’s

Satan’s Whore | Elizabeth Cady | Stanton Theater for the New City

Hit the Road | Bobo the Hobo | Theater for the New City

Melt: Poems/Songs for Spring | Reader/Singer | Jefferson Market

Last Words: Letters of Vincent van Gogh | Vincent | Jefferson Market

Macbeth | Hecate | Jefferson Market

Melt: Poems/Songs for Spring | Reader/Singer | Jefferson Market

Feminist Fables from France | Reading | Jefferson Market

A String of Pearls | Vocalist | Jefferson Market

Elegant Simplicity | Vocalist | Jefferson Market

Three Sisters (Chekhov) | Masha | Westside Repertory

Ghosts (Ibsen) | Mrs Alving | Westside Repertory

The Apple Cart (Shaw) | Amanda | Westside Repertory

Henry IV, Part 1 | Mistress Quickly | Columbia Players

Freed Speech | Catharine MacKinnon | The New School

Stage Door | Judith Canfield | New School Theatre Workshop/B. Speigel

Women Are Filthy | One-Woman Piece | Online festival (Covid)

Theatre/France (selected)

Fables of La Fontaine | The Rat/Director | Les Halles, Paris

Martyrdom of St. Sébastien | Byblosienne | Théâtre du Châtelet

La Marquise d’O (Kleist) | Marquise | Avignon “ Off”Festival

A Mirror of Words | Emily Dickinson | Avignon “ Off”Festival

Letters of Vincent Van Gogh | Vincent | Avignon “ Off”Festival

Sonnets of Shakespeare | Solo show | Avignon “ Off”Festival

Vichy | Solo show | Avignon “ Off”Festival

Les Bonnes (The Maids) | Claire | Théâtre de la Solitude

Pouvoir | Reading | Théâtre de la Solitude

Eating Play/Laughing Play/Waiting Play | Sister | Théâtre de la Solitude

Eating Play/Laughing Play/Waiting Play with Jeanine Semedo | Sister | Théâtre de la Solitude

Sprung Rhythm: Poems of Gerard Manley Hopking | Reading | Théâtre de la Solitude

Are Women Human? | Reading | Théâtre de la Solitude

Film

Seeing Glory* | Eva | New School/Rick Hamilton

*Award winner for Best Women’s Short at QFlix, Clexacon, Out on Film, Chain Film Festival.

“Little Rimbaud” music video | Queen Elizabeth II | Columbia/Sony

Mrs Selby’s Dream | Mrs Selby | Independent/M. Wenger

Separation | Magda | Independent/Blake, Akempta

Epris d’Aventure | Voice-Over | France 3

Sous les Etoiles du Pôle | Voice-Over | France 5

Regional/National Tour

The Open Book Theater at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center: Three Readings
(Mayflower; The Edith Whartons; The Tenancy of Mr. Eex).

National Theater of the Performing Arts: The Miser: Frosine. Town Hall/national tour.

Chamber Theatre National Tour: Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain.

Training:

BA summa cum laude in French Theatre and History, UC Berkeley.

Stella Adler Conservatory: script analysis with Stella Adler, New York.

HB Studios: scene study with Herbert Berghof, New York; Acting with Jean-Laurent Cochet of the Comédie-Française, Paris.

Master class in Shakespeare with Fiona Shaw, New York, 2013.

Film technique with Ivory Aquino, New York and on line, continuing

Voice with Matthew Anchel of the Metropolitan Opera, continuing

Susan Batson and Carl Ford, online, continuing

Special Skills:

Mezzo-soprano.

Fluent in French.