Overview:
Smart, professional, and easy to work with, Emma Lieberman has played all kinds of roles from Shakespeare to sketch. She’s a regular cast member with live sketch comedy show TMI Hollywood, and online with Hot and Funny Comedy. Additionally, she originated the role of Rachel Trudeau in the new musical Public Comment at the Hollywood Fringe Festival (Producer’s Encore Award winner), and has tackled some of the most interesting women in the Shakespeare’s canon, with roles in Othello and The Winter’s Tale.
Training:
Emma practiced writing and performing stand up comedy from a young age at the Kids 'n Comedy workshop in New York. More recently, however, she has studied commercial technique in Killian’s Adult Commercial Workshop, improv and sketch at UCB, and audition technique with Stephen Snyder at Pitbull Snyder Acting Studio. In New York she took classes at The Barrow Group, working with the school’s co-founders, Seth Barrish and Lee Brock. Emma has her BA from Brandeis University and spent a semester at Queen Mary, University of London, which was at the time the #1 ranked school in the UK for drama by the National Research Exercise.
Recent Work:
Everyone loves a good comedy with heart, and Emma is no exception. That’s what has led her to some of her favorite roles, including the lead in mockumentary short “Confessions of a Teenage Cannibal” which played in Lyon, France at the On Vous Ment International Mockumentary Film Festival. She is also very excited for indie feature Tales From Shakespeare in which she plays a supporting role to come out early next year. On stage, she has produced staged readings of Seminar and Almost, Maine, with all proceeds going to charities afterwards.
The Personal Touch:
A rabid travel lover, Emma has experience with all kinds of cultures of the world, and loves to see and try new things. From Greece to Canada, Israel to Peru, Emma has traveled extensively, and hopes to visit every continent one day - including Antarctica!
Closer to home, Emma also enjoys playing softball (she’s a catcher, if you’re curious) and watching baseball. If you ever need an impromptu presentation on any old topic, she can speak for hours about the ridiculous contract the Yankees offered Gerrit Cole two years ago, and then immediately turn around and be extremely proud of him as a Cy Young Award finalist.
Current and Upcoming Work:
Emma’s latest feature film, Cats of the Bayou (ASMR), dir. Alexander Roman, is beginning its festival run now; it most recently screened at the Another Hole in the Head Film Festival based in San Francisco. She also looks forward to returning to performing again with TMI Hollywood it’s safe to re-open small theaters. In the meantime, she’s working on a solo show about who we think we are as children, and dealing with still pursuing childhood dreams when they’re no longer relevant to who you are as an adult, tentatively titled The First Female Player in Major League Baseball.
