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Emma is a current student of a diploma of acting at the National Theatre Drama School, as well as completing an a drama major at Monash University. This year she has also been invited to study at LaSalle College of the Arts in Singapore, gaining scholarships for both the acting and music theatre courses. 2007 has already been a busy year for Emma as she performed in a production of Tick, Tick…Boom! (Susan) and has also been appointed Assistant Musical Director of MUMCo’s Urinetown. She has also just performed her first cabaret at Federation Square this year.
Emma's performing career began at the tender age of eight, as a munchkin in her drama school's production of The Wizard of Oz. Since then she has expanded her talents ever so slightly, and has performed in such productions as Guys and Dolls, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, Sweet Charity, Chicago, A Chorus Line (Maggie Winslow), Jesus Christ Superstar, Seussical the Musical, and Silly Season (Monash Uni Performing Arts). She has also performed at both the National and Monash Carols by Candlelight, as a soloist in MUMCo’s “Decade: A Showcase of Popular Musicals”, as Mimi in a performance of “Vocal Selections from Rent” and in a revue show called “One For The Girls” with Mountain District Musical Society.
More recently Emma was a part of the Tony Bones Entertainment Christmas show, “Rudolph’s Recruits” as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, traveling all around Victoria and NSW performing at primary schools, kindergartens and corporate functions alike, throughout December- the experience of a lifetime!
Emma’s musical training began when she took up the clarinet in 1995, and has since also learned to play saxophone and flute. She has had vocal training for many years, learning from both Erika Turner and Suzanne Ward, and has just recently begun teaching singing to children. In between her hectic rehearsal schedule Emma also attends jazz and tap classes at Dance Factory. Emma also works as a singing teacher around Melbourne. She is delighted to be working for Tony Bones Entertainment. |
