• Emily’s journey into story making started on long trips in the backseat of her family car when she would create characters and scenes in her head and act out all the parts herself. This eventually led to acting in school plays from elementary school through college. Regional theatre followed on stages from California to Scotland. Roles ranged from a 1940s Hollywood starlet in Noel Coward's "Relative Values", to Mary Magdalene in "Jesus Christ, Superstar," to Sophie, a Victorian prostitute in the world premiere of "Jack's Back" a musical farce about Jack the Ripper, to Miranda in "The Tempest" which was performed al fresco in St. Andrews, Scotland during a literal tempest.

    After moving to New York and acting with The Shelter, a theatre company that featured completely new works and writers, Emily took the plunge and put those scenes from her head on paper. Her first play, “A Shaky Situation” was featured in “Peep Show: 3:56 Revisited,” a night of short plays. More work followed including a "Real Housewives" version of "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and a Gold Rush era western about separated sisters. A sitcom, Liz/Beth's, about two sisters running a bakery, is currently in preproduction.

    “Amador” is Emily’s first full length film. It started as a literal kitchen sink drama with a single set. After a public reading and with the encouragement from friends, it made the jump to screenplay because really, who doesn't want to film dragging a body around and pushing a truck off a hill in the middle of the night at an abandoned mine? This story features themes found throughout Emily's work: friendship, Northern California vibes and tough broads in tricky situations.

  • His feature film Camp Wedding received the Funnybone Award from the Eastern Oregon Film Fest, Nevermore Film Festival’s audience Award and was called “mad as a bag of hats” by someone on the internet.

    His short films include: Bowes Academy (Out South Best short), Spell Claire, Get the F K Outta Paris!, Death by Omelette (SNCF Prix Du Polar Finalist) and webseries Do it Yourselfie (Friar’s Club special Jury Award, iTVfest Best Director award).

    Outside of fiction film, he has created the behind-scenes documentaries for Julie Taymor's The Tempest, Broadway musical Spider-Man Turn off the Dark and numerous productions at New York City Opera and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as well as serving as video director for the 2008-11 NEA Opera Honors, the 2011, 2013 NEA Jazz Masters and 2007-10 New York City Opera VOX Showcases.

    Most recently he shot and edited the upcoming feature documentary about an unsung AIDS activist that ran around the entire perimeter of the US, For the Love of Friends.

    In addition to filmmaking, he’s worked in opera houses from Beijing to Croatia as a video designer, including Fire Shut Up in My Bones at The Metropolitan Opera, La Fanciulla Del West National Center for Performing Arts – Beijing, La Clemenza Di Tito LA Opera, Tristan Und Isolde Croatian National Theatre. World premieres of Bel Canto Chicago Lyric Opera, Dolores Claiborne San Francisco Opera, Champion, An American Soldier, Shalimar, 27 and The Golden Ticket Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Enemies a Love Story Palm Beach and Wallace Shawn's The Music Teacher with The New Group.