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.
Her theatre work spans Shakespeare to new Australian writing, with credits including As You Like It and Comedy of Errors (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).
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 children’s performer, ‘Emily Who’ she sings songs that are perfect for preschoolers. She has five albums released.
She regularly performs live shows across Sydney including for Vivid Festival, Sydney Fringe Festival and the Spot on Kid Festival at Riverside Parramatta. She writes and presents annual children’s classical music concerts for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Youth Orchestras and Ku-ring-gai Philharmonic Orchestra as well as many other ensembles across Australia.
In 2023 Emily received the award for Best Children’s Performer NSW – overall winner and people’s choice. She was also nominated for Best Album at the Major Minor Music Award. In 2024 she performed as part of the Artist Meets Early Years program at the Visioni Festival Bologna, Italy, and toured to preschools across London.
