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 pieces include one-person shows based on the writings of Simone de Beauvoir, Vincent van Gogh, Emily Dickinson, and Gerard Manley Hopkins, and essays on French culture. They have been performed at festivals including Avignon “Off”; the Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival, hosted by Danny Glover; the Boston Playwrights Festival; and the “Refusing to be Silenced” festival on line during Covid. She was honored to work with Mario Biagini of the Grotowski Open Program in “Home” in 2019, and with Stanzi Vaubel and Philippe Treuille in “Directions for Making A Round Ark” at the DiMenna Center and Irondale in 2026.

As a choral singer, she has performed at Carnegie Hall with the Cecilia Chorus of New York and at the Salle Pleyel and Chatelet with the Choeur Vittoria. She teaches writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where she is active in its newly-formed union, SVA Faculty United.