EMILY H. GILSON
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Historical, biopic, villain (Performance Video) Quicktime
RUSTIN, dir. George C. Wolfe for Netflix - I play a composite character, "Little Rock White Girl," based on Hazel Massery, one of the real-life white teenagers who yelled racist epithets at the Little Rock Nine in 1957.
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Dramatic contemporary realism (Performance Video) Quicktime
Two roommates meet on their balcony in the middle of a cold quarantine night.
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Period Drama, Military, Action (Performance Video) Quicktime
Sarika Fortis, born 1927, is a Greek-Jewish former resistance leader during WWII. This clip, set in 1944, has Sarika as Captain of her unit, and this may be the last time she and her uncle ever see each other. From a staged workshop in June 2023.
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HORROR/HISTORICAL DRAMA LEAD (short) (Performance Video) Quicktime
Alice Paul, suffrage leader, about to be force-fed in Silent Sentinel - Discordian Films, 2017. Think "Iron-Jawed Angels" on an indie scale.
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HISTORICAL DRAMA LEAD (short) (Performance Video) Quicktime
Alice Paul in Silent Sentinel, post-torture, telling colleague Doris Stephens to keep marching forward without her. Strong-minded and visionary even in the face of hopelessness. Think "Iron-Jawed Angels" on an indie scale.
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COMEDY LEAD (short) (Performance Video) Quicktime
Julie in Ghost House (Student Film, Delta Kappa Alpha American University) I've got one desperate last shot to sell a house before I'm fired, except it's haunted by a not-very-scary ghost.
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BLACK COMEDY LEAD (short) (Performance Video) Quicktime
Nominated for Best Actress: Sci-fi, 2018 DC 48 Hour Horror/Sci-Fi Festival Role: Lilith. A succubus summoned into....well, not what she's used to.
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DRAMATIC, DARK (short) (Performance Video) Quicktime
CJ's wife in Normalized (short, 2022). I've come - with our daughter - to get him from prison in the middle of the night after an accident.
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Commercial Voiceover Reel (Audio Tracks) Quicktime
Résumé Print Résumé
Represented by: |
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Hutson Talent Agency (VA) (757) 673-6436 Commercial, Print, Product Print, SAG-AFTRA, Theatrical, Voice-Overs |
Film (partial list) | ||
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Rustin |
Supporting |
Netflix / George C. Wolfe |
Pen Pals (short) |
Lead |
Mark Williams Hoelscher |
Ahead of the Jones (short) (^NOMINEE: Best Actress - Sci-fi) |
Lead |
Discordian Films /J Dzikiewicz |
Silent Sentinel (short) |
Lead |
Discordian Films /J Dzikiewicz |
Normal-ized (short) |
Supporting |
Lexicon Media / Ziad Foty |
Television | ||
CSI On Trial: (1.2) Bite Mark Analysis |
Lead |
CuriosityStream |
Southern Fried Homicide: (1.1) "Kissing Cousins" |
Supporting |
Investigation Discovery |
Commercial conflicts available on request | ||
Streaming Theatre | ||
Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley |
Elizabeth Darcy |
Strand Theater Co/Erin Riley |
Richard II (zoom livestream) |
Northumberland |
The Show Must Go Online |
Euripedes' Helen |
Helen of Troy |
American Thymele Theatre |
Regional Theatre - Partial list | ||
Company Member |
Maryland Renaissance Festival |
Carolyn Spedden |
The Town Fop |
Jenny |
MD Renaissance Festival |
Eastward Ho! |
Sindefy |
MD Renaissance Festival |
In The Next Room or the vibrator play |
Mrs. Givings |
Silver Spring Stage/Jen Katz |
Other Desert Cities |
Brooke Wyeth |
Peace Mountain Theatre Company |
The Tempest |
Ariel |
WSC Avant Bard/Tom Prewitt |
Uri and Ora Light the Menorah |
Mom/Puppeteer |
Adventure Theatre MTC |
Doubt: A Parable (HELEN HAYES RECOMMENDED) |
Sister James |
SeeNoSun Onstage/M. Wright |
The Mollusc |
Miss Roberts |
Quotidian Theatre/J. Sbarbori |
The Ferberizing of Coral (World Premiere) |
Young Coral (Originated role) |
Source Festival/Anne Donnelly |
Iolanthe |
Ensemble |
Washington Savoyards |
Concerts and Workshops | ||
Catch a Dream Musical (reading) |
Ensemble/Swing |
George Mason University |
La Ti Do NoVA: Disney Night |
Featured Cabaret Soloist |
Latido Prods. / Josh Cleveland |
La Ti Do NoVA: Golden Oldies |
Featured cabaret soloist |
Latido Prods. / Josh Cleveland |
La Ti Do NoVa: I Love/Hate the Holidays |
Featured cabaret soloist |
Latido Prods. / Josh Cleveland |
Live From Quarantine Cabaret |
Featured Soloist |
Table Top Broadway NYC |
New Play Development / Devised - partial list | ||
72 Hours (Industry Reading) |
Sarika Ikonomou |
Deno Seder |
Born Guilty and the Wolf in Peter (staged reading) |
Stefanie |
Theater J/Theatre Lab |
Giant Shadows (staged reading) |
Young Raya |
Theater J/Theatre Lab |
Gas/Food/Lodging (world premiere staged reading) |
Carla/Ariel |
Kennedy Center/Carl Randolph |
Washington Metro "Breathe Easy" |
Principal |
WMATA |
Voiceover and Narration | ||
Quorum: the Messenger's Tale |
Robin (Lead) |
Jabberwocky Audio Theatre |
Double Derby Desserts |
Alice (Lead character) |
Meet Cute, Inc / Adam Cecil |
Somebody Killed Mom (Podcast) |
Abi (Series lead) |
Rebecca Mlinek |
Baltimore County Public Library |
Narrator |
Library Video Network |
Audiobooks | ||
Time to Live: Inheritance of Time #1 |
Narrator |
Audible |
LOCAL HOUSING | ||
DC |
NYC |
LA |
Physical Characteristics / Measurements |
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Height: 5'2" |
Weight: 135 lbs |
Eyes: Brown |
Hair Color: Red |
Hair Length: Shoulder Length |
A capella vocalist, Belt to F5, Can reach top E6 note, Can wiggle my nose, good at trumpet noises, Great with animals, Great with kids, Home VO studio, Licensed teacher, Lyric Soprano to C6, Boxing, Cycling, Equestrian - General, Fencing, Swimming - ability - general, Yoga, Licensed Driver, Mime, Singer, Teleprompter, Vocal Range: Mezzo Soprano, Vocal Range: Soprano, Vocal Style: Belt, Vocal Style: Legit, Voiceover, American - New York Accent, American - Southern Accent, American - Texan Accent, British - BBC English Accent, British - Cockney Accent, British - Yorkshire Accent, French Accent, German Accent, Irish Accent, Israeli Accent, Jewish/Yiddish Accent, Russian Accent
www.emilygilsonactor.com / Teleprompter. Mix/Belt D3 - F5, Soprano to C6. / Lithuanian/Middle-eastern Jewish descent. Training: Dan Thaler Voice Studio (NYC); Shaw Festival, Ontario, CA; Shakespeare & Company, Lenox, MA (David M. Demke and Tina Packer); The Studio Theatre Acting Conservatory, Washington, DC; B.A., Purchase College Conservatory of Theatre Arts, Purchase, NY, Magna Cum Laude; Overtures Musical Theatre Institute, Signature Theatre, Arlington, VA; Voiceover: Laura Giannarelli.