Graduating from Royal Holloway, University of London with a Bachelors Drama and Dance in July, Emily is going on to continue her education at New York University Steinhardt studying a Master of Music Vocal Performance (Music Theatre).
Born in Hong Kong, Emily has moved around living in places such as Vancouver, Toronto, and London as she continues her education and professional development in the performing arts. Performing from a young age, she has had the opportunity to work with professional artists all across the world. These experiences fuelled her passion for the performing arts – in particular, musical theatre.
Attending high school at Brentwood College School, she immersed herself in as many performing arts options as possible participating in the choirs, dance, drama and musical theatre programs for the majority of the four years; at graduation, she received the Head of School Awards for the Arts.
Moving to Toronto after graduation, she attended City Dance Corps and continued her vocal training with Allison Arends. Involved in two 24-hour musical projects, two major productions as a performer and one production as a rehearsal manager in the space of six months challenged her to learn more about the performing arts.
Throughout her Bachelors at Royal Holloway, she has been heavy involvement with RHSU Musical Theatre Society performing in four major productions and being on the production team for two. In 2017, she went to the prestigious Edinburgh Fringe Festival with Ethereal Theatre Company. Emily played the role of Crystal and their production of Little Shop of Horrors received a 4-star review from Broadway Baby. Finding a passion for marketing and graphic design, she has been involved in serval projects over the years publicizing productions including Savoy Opera Society’s production of The Gondoliers which went up to the Gilbert and Sullivan Festival in Harrogate. As part of the theatre company, Discourse Collective, they created an original devised piece called ‘Figures’ which premiered at Royal Holloway Drama Department’s Finalists’ Festival in 2019.
Taking advantage of many opportunities and with every new discovery she is one step closer to her goals.
Emily is currently rehearsing an original devised piece of theatre ‘Figures’ as part of the theatre company, Discourse Collective. As a company, we explored the inexplicable nature of amorous love through Roland Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments by adapting fragment from the text for stage. This piece first premiered as part of Royal Holloway Drama Department’s Finalists’ Festival on 28th March and will be next performed at Ovalhouse in South London on 31st May.
Emily is an up-and-coming graphic designer who specialized in brand identity, web design and photo editing. Some past projects consisted of creating digital marketing material for websites, newsletters, magazines and social media using platforms such Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. In her theatrical projects as a Publicity Officer, she has taken acting headshots, rehearsal photos, videos and production photos. She has a certificate as a Digital Marketing Specialist – Social Media Marketing from Digital Marketing Institute accredited by University of Utah.
Currently, Emily is the photography editor for The Orbital Magazine and is the publicity officer on the committee for RHUL Drama Society.
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