Emily rollie (SHE/HER)

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

Pacific Northwest, West Coast, & Nationally
www.emilyrollie.com

Emily A. Rollie (PhD, she/her) is a director, intimacy choreographer, and educator whose work centers on consent-forward artistic practices, ensemble-based storytelling, and the expressive potential of the body, voice, and shared space.

With a passion for character-driven performance and fostering curiosity and collaboration, Emily has directed in venues around the country. She has a particular interest in new play development as well as intersectional feminist and queer performance. As an intimacy choreographer, she has worked on productions such as Angels in America, Stupid F**king Bird, In the Blood, Footloose, bare: a pop opera, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and more.

Emily’s artistic work and research investigate the intersection between practice and theory, with particular interest in the pedagogical impacts of consent-forward rehearsal practices and the ways intersectional identities such as gender and race inform directorial practices. Her writing has been published in various journals and in edited collections such as On Directing, New Directions in Teaching Theatre Arts, and the SDC Journal Peer Reviewed Section.

As a Guiding Faculty member with Theatrical Intimacy Education, Emily facilitates online and in-person workshops around Best Practices and Studio Techniques of consent-based work, and she has a particular interest in best practices for working with understudies, particularly regarding intimacy practices. Overall, her teaching and pedagogy focuses on facilitating collaborative, inclusive, and sustainable creative spaces for artists of all backgrounds and experience levels.

Emily is also an associate professor of theatre at Central Washington University, where she teaches directing, acting, and theatre research methods courses across BA and BFA theatre programs and in Gender and Sexuality Studies. She is a member of 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, Emily can likely be found running the trails in the mountains near her home or spoiling her trio of black cats (Dexter, Oliver, and Benny).