Originally from Ottawa, Emily now calls Vancouver home as she works on her MFA at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts. Her solo shows Swimming Lessons with Paisley Kite, Radio Collar and Free Range have toured across the country on the Canadian Fringe circuit. She has produced art festivals in Montreal and Ottawa, created a radio documentary, Schnartzenhoeller, for CBC’s Outfront, hooked up a golden bicycle to an amplifier so that when you pedal, it plays stories about cycling, and made theatre across the country as an actor, writer, director and dramaturge. Recent preoccupations include sustainable transportation, rusty magic, and common sense as a cultural system. Current research interests include the audience as performance collaborator, process models for solo theatre, methods of annotating performance texts and art as gift.