Emily Who
Actor, Musician, Voice Artist & Children’s Entertainer
An actor, musician, voice artist and beloved children’s performer. Emily is also an award-winning emerging artist, and creates work across theatre, TV, podcasts and kids’ music, including her popular persona Emily Who.
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Emily is a Sydney-based actor, musician, voice artist and celebrated children’s entertainer. A recipient of the Emerging Artist Award at the 2019 Sydney Fringe Festival and a Best Actor nominee, she brings charisma, creativity and versatility to every stage she steps onto.
Her theatre work spans Shakespeare to new Australian writing, with credits including As You Like It (Sport For Jove), Macbeth (SheShakespeare), TickTickBoom (subtlenuance), Gravity Guts and Ginger. Black. Brunette. Blonde. (Company of Rogues). In 2017 she toured nationally with Poetry in Action, performing for audiences across Australia.
On screen, Emily has appeared in Jay’s Jungle (Ambience Entertainment) and Black Comedy (ABC). During lockdown she kept performing, starring in online Shakespeare productions for Streamed Shakespeare and delivering a series of children’s concerts for the Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre.
A skilled voice-over artist, Emily is the voice of the audio tour at Sydney’s Hyde Park Barracks Museum.
She is also the creator and host of the popular acting podcast An Actor Survives.
As a children’s performer, Emily is known as Emily Who, with three albums of original kids’ music and live appearances at Sydney Fringe Festival, Riverside Parramatta’s Spot On Kids Festival, and regular performances with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra. She also created the web series Kids Couch Concert Series and Musical Pirate Adventures, collaborating with Arcadia Winds.
Emily is passionate about literacy and early childhood engagement, volunteering with Storyville and Books In Homes.
Internationally recognised, she was selected for the Artist Meets Early Years program at the Visioni Festival in Bologna and the Next Generation program at the Bibu Festival in Sweden. When both were cancelled due to the pandemic, she adapted on the fly—performing in preschools across London.
