Who is she?

Emma McGill is an actress, playwright, solo performance artist, menace, diva, amateur roller skater, visual artist and fool!

Most recently, she wrote and performed her one woman show Graveyard Shift (directed by Sam Lane) where it premiered to a sold out run at the off-broadway Chain Theater. It was then produced by Cannonball as part of Philadelphia Fringe Festival. It was first developed at the Celebration Barn Theater under the guidance of Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley (co-founders of theater company Fake Friends.)

In Graveyard Shift, the character of “Emma” competes on a tv game show where the game is to find and keep a job for a whole calendar year to win a grand prize of… job sponsored health insurance! The show portrays the absurdity of grief and modern labor conditions through a pastiche of clownery, burlesque, autobiography, puppetry and more!

She previously has written and performed in her one woman show Isabella Stewart Gardner is Back From Hell!

Select Acting Credits

TV: “Damages,” “BlackBox” and “the Equalizer.” Theater credits include Kiss (ArtsEmerson) and Much Ado About Nothing (Brown Box Theater Project.) She graduated from Emerson College with a BFA in Acting, where she received the Nicolle DuFresne award for excellence in acting and playwriting.