EMILY H. GILSON
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Dramatic Solo Performance 1: Consolation (excerpt) (Performance Video) Quicktime
"Melanie is wet. Her wrists are bandaged. All hope is lost." After a failed suicide attempt and the trauma that comes with it, a woman suddenly relives her past & realizes maybe she's not alone after all. From a solo piece by Scott Sickles
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Second Worst Valentine's Day EVER! (Performance Video) Quicktime
After a failed suicide attempt, a woman relives a traumatic childhood valentines' day to the friend who found her. A darkly comic monologue about trust. Excerpt from a solo piece by Scott Sickles, 2020.
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Musical theatre: Legit Soprano (Performance Video) Quicktime
When Did I Fall in Love? Thea, Fiorello! (Bock/Harnick)
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Musical theatre: Contemporary Pop (Performance Video) Quicktime
Long Long Time (Linda Ronstadt cover)
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Musical theatre - Sondheim: comedic uptempo (Performance Video) Quicktime
Moments in the Woods: Baker's Wife
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Musical Theatre: Contemporary Mezzo Mix/Belt Folk/Rock (Performance Video) Quicktime
Beverley - Come from Away
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Musical theatre: Mezzo Pop Ballad (Performance Video) Quicktime
Bring On the Men: Jekyll and Hyde (Wildhorn)
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Musical theatre: Electropop (Performance Video) Quicktime
Sonya Alone: Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Malloy)
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Musical theatre: Contemporary Mezzo Ballad (Performance Video) Quicktime
Omar Sharif - Dina, The Band's Visit (Yazbeck)
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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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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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Comedy: Angry Birthday Clown (Performance Video) Quicktime
Melonie, a bio engineering PhD who had to take a job as a birthday clown, arrives to a hilarious misunderstanding. From The Birthday Special (short), Discordian Film's 2017 DC 48 Hour Film submission.
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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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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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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 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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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
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FireStarter Entertainment (NY) 212-651-9042 x 701 FireStarter Entertainment (CA) Theatre: (213) 531-0547 x 701 / TV/Film: (213) 531-0547 x 713 Theatre Hutson Talent Agency (VA) (757) 673-6436 Theatrical (Film / TV), Commercial, Voiceover, Print |
NY/DC based Actor-Singer | ||
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www.emilygilsonactor.com | ||
Direct email emgilson90@yahoo.com | ||
Regional Theatre | ||
The Nance (**11 HELEN HAYES NOMINATIONS) |
Joan U/S |
1st Stage/Nick Olcott |
Songbird (La Perichole) |
Actor/Dancer |
Wash Nat. Opera /Eric S Fogel |
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 |
Eastward Ho! |
Sindefy |
MD Renaissance Festival |
Doubt: A Parable (HELEN HAYES RECOMMENDED) |
Sister James |
SeeNoSun Onstage/M. Wright |
The Town Fop |
Jenny, Female Swing |
MD Renaissance Festival |
Uri and Ora Light the Menorah |
Mom/Puppeteer |
Adventure Theatre MTC |
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 |
Streaming Theatre | ||
Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley |
Elizabeth Darcy |
Strand Theater Co/Erin Riley |
Richard II |
Northumberland |
The Show Must Go Online |
Concerts and Workshops | ||
Catch a Dream Musical |
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 and short film) |
Sarika Ikonomou/Sara Fortis |
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 |
Film | ||
Rustin |
Supporting |
Netflix / George C. Wolfe |
A Civil Civil Servant (pre-production) |
Supporting |
Stalking Horse / Jonah Manibus |
72 Hours |
Lead |
Deno Seder |
Unresolved (short) |
Lead |
Tohubohu Productions |
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 |
Television | ||
The Daily Show |
Under 5 |
Comedy Central / Robert Smigel |
CSI On Trial: (1.2) Bite Mark Analysis |
Lead |
CuriosityStream |
Southern Fried Homicide: (1.1) "Kissing Cousins" |
Supporting |
Investigation Discovery |
Washington Metro "Breathe Easy" |
Principal |
WMATA |
Voiceover, Narration, and Podcasts | ||
Quorum: the Messenger's Tale |
Robin (Series Lead) |
Jabberwocky Audio Theatre |
Double Derby Desserts |
Alice (Lead) |
Meet Cute, Inc / Adam Cecil |
Somebody Killed Mom |
Abi (Series Lead) |
Rebecca Mlinek |
Baltimore County Public Library |
Narrator |
Library Video Network |
Audiobooks | ||
Time to Live: Inheritance of Time #1 |
Narrator |
Audible |
Commercial conflicts available on request. | ||
LOCAL HOUSING: | ||
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Physical Characteristics / Measurements |
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Height: 5'2" |
Weight: 135 lbs |
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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, improv (youth + adult), Licensed teacher, Lyric Soprano to C6, teaching artist, 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 - Standard/General 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
Teleprompter. Mix/Belt D3 - F5, Soprano to E6. / Lithuanian/Middle-eastern Jewish. 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.