Emily rollie (SHE/HER)

Intimacy Choreography, Actor Self-Advocacy, Consent in Directing/Director Training, Consent-Based Pedagogies Across the Curriculum, Consent and Yoga

Seattle
www.emilyrollie.com

Emily A. Rollie (PhD, she/her) is a freelance director and intimacy choreographer/educator based in Washington state. An associate professor at Central Washington University, Emily teaches directing, acting, theatre history, theatre pedagogy, and dramatic literature across the BA, BFA, and MA theatre programs as well as in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. 

Emily has directed in venues around the country, with a particular passion for new play development as well as intersectional feminist performance. As an intimacy choreographer, she has worked on productions such as Stupid F**king Bird, Holiday Inn: The Musical, In the Blood, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Emily’s research investigates the intersection between practice and theory, with particular interests in the pedagogical implications of consent-based rehearsal practices and the ways intersectional identities such as gender and race impact directorial practices. Her work has been published in various journals and in edited collections On Directing and New Directions in Teaching Theatre Arts. In addition to being an assistant faculty member with Theatrical Intimacy Education (TIE), Emily is a member of the SDC (Stage Directors & Choreographers Society), co-editor of the SDC Journal Peer Reviewed Section, and a registered yoga instructor who leads Yoga for Artist workshops around the country. When not doing theatre, she can likely be found running the trails in the mountains near her home or spoiling her cat, Bogart (named after Anne, not Humphrey).