Actor, writer, singer, teacher, and ardent feminist, Emily Blake creates performances based on texts in English and French, site-specific pieces, and projects in response to political events.  She works in Paris at her studio, Théâtre de la Solitude, and in New York City.

Blake was educated at Bryn Mawr College, the Sorbonne, the American University of Paris, the New School of Social Research, and UC Berkeley, from which she holds a BA summa cum laude in French Theatre and History.  She studied with Léo Bersani, Stella Adler, Herbert Berghof, Ivory Aquino, Susan Batson, and in master classes with Jean-Laurent Cochet of the Comédie-Française and with Fiona Shaw. She has had residencies at Djerassi in California and Les Ateliers d’Amphoux and L’Atelier de la Rose in France.

Her theatre pieces include one-person shows based on the writings of Simone de Beauvoir, Vincent van Gogh, Emily Dickinson, and Gerard Manley Hopkins, and essays and monologues on French culture.  They have been performed in multiple venues in the US and France, including the Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival, hosted by Danny Glover; the Boston Playwrights Festival; and the Avignon “Off” Festival in the south of France (six seasons). She has performed with Mario Biagini of the Grotowski Open Program at the Andrew Freedman Home and with Stanzi Vaubel and Philippe Treuille at the DiMenna Center and Irondale, and sung at Carnegie Hall with the Cecilia Chorus of New York and at the Salle Pleyel and Théâtre du Châtelet with the Choeur Vittoria. She teaches writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.