about emily

Emily Brown is a Canadian-Australian actress with a passion for bold pieces and experimental processes. Her work spans genres and modalities, and often explores power cycles, dynamics, and struggles, and plays with implied social hierarchies.

Alongside her work in narrative film, Emily has performed in physical theatre and Clown throughout North America. She has debuted characters in original pieces, such as Brooklyn in ‘Today Is Your Day’, Charlene in ‘A Complete Set’ (InspiraTO festival), and the experimental forum cast debut of ‘Xwelitem’, funded in part by University of Birmingham, and commissioned by the Government of Canada. She has also appeared in site-specific theatre, most notably as part of Hudson Valley Movement Company’s art installations in Industry City, Brooklyn.

Emily is a graduate of the Terry Knickerbocker Studio 2-year Meisner Conservatory in Brooklyn, New York. She has also trained at The Lucid Body Institute (NYC), York University (Canada), Pro Actor’s Lab, and Second City Toronto.

She splits her time between London (UK) and Toronto (Canada).