Emma Evelyn Harris
Emma Evelyn Harris is an actor and director. She also has a love for arts administration and marketing for theatre. She has a deep love for history and learning about the past. She wants to work in film and then build her own theatre company.
Emma has done quite a lot of stage work from a parody show with Right Angle Entertainment, Who is the Scranton Strangler: An Office Parody, to straight plays, and Shakespeare. Some of her favorite credits include, Sally Talley in Talley’s Folly, Alice in Drowning Girls, Miranda in The Tempest, and Lady M in Macbeth.
Since starting her graduate program at SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design) she has dived head first into films. Her favorites include The Orange Duel, written and directed by Sven Klingen, Eat Me, Baby written by Kyra Richardson and directed by Lucca Vieira, and Lost Under Hope Written by David Glass and Aidan Winship and directed by Aidan Winship.
As someone who always wants to be involved Emma has many experience working different areas of the technical field. While at SCAD she has been elected President of SCAD GradLab, a graduate level club that focus on performance and laboratory style learning. She is also a director, her first full length show she directed was Quarter Cup by: Talley Sugg who was a classmate at Brevard. She has also worked for Highlands Performing Arts Center as a lightning intern and run crew on multiple occasions.
During undergrad at Brevard College Emma met many amazing friends and colleagues. One of her biggest mentors has been Joe Hernandez. He has continued to push and challenge her through good in bad times. Another mentor has been Andrea Boccanfuso. She has supported Emma and many other student consistently through their years at Brevard and beyond. Emma is so thankful for all of the experience, opportunities, and friends made at Brevard College.
She graduated from Brevard College with a BA in Theatre and a minor in History. After graduation she moved to Savannah, GA to continue her education at SCAD. She brought her sweet kitty, Cinco, with her on her journey to grad school and beyond. She is a candidate for a MFA in Performing Arts, she is currently working on her thesis production and looking forward to graduation in the spring of 2024.
“The only failure is to not try.” - George Clooney.
Testimonials
“In the short time that I have had to work with Emma, I have been honored to be able to see her work grow into something transformative. She excels in anything she puts her mind to and is exemplary to collaborate with. She thrives on hard work, dedication to the craft and the process. I look forward to the day that I am able to collaborate with her again.”
“In this amazing student production of Talley’s Folly, Emma Harris played Sally Talley as a kind of southern Rosie the Riveter. The actor who portrayed her beau, Matt Friedman, got a lot of laughs from the audience for both fast delivery and physical humor,as he pursued her to the boathouse outside the family estate. However, the performance depended upon Harris’ grounded and skeptical Sally, who inched her suitor forward with steady reality checks that seemed genuinely smart but not unloving. Such complex chemistry in a relationship is rare to pull off in college theater, yet thanks to Harris it was quite successful.”
“Emma is an incredibly hard worker and puts everything she can into the work she does. Her vast knowledge on history makes her an incredible resource, her humor makes the room light up, and she always finds a way to add a piece of herself in everything she is a part of. I’m so grateful for the time I’ve had to work with her!”
“Emma is a highly motivated artist and an emerging process driven practitioner of theatre. She is bright, forward thinking, a creative problem solver, and enthusiastic about her love of the theatrical art form. Meticulously detail oriented, she has a bright future ahead in theatre, film, and arts administration.”
Artistic Statement
I am a creative person, and I have pursued many avenues; nothing has spoken to me quite like acting. As an actor, I take my work very seriously, and I work hard, always at 110%. Theatre is my passion, and I want to tell the story and the truth behind it in the best way possible. I am very analytical, I process every little detail, and with that I am able to take notes and almost immediately apply it. I love collaboration and working as a team with my cast because a performance is nothing without the team. The start of a new project is very exciting. I get to find my own viewpoint of the story while staying true to my character. I am dedicated to this craft and excited about every project. I want my stories to change people and teach them something new about themselves or the world around them.
As a director, I love to collaborate with my actors. I like to ask a series of questions to help set the story and watch the actors begin to shape it. Having control of the narrative is very exciting. I am able to tell this story through my own lens, and I push my actors to grow and take risks. It's very exciting to watch someone discover different ideas and perspectives. I am passionate about theatre and telling my own story through all of the other dedicated people in my cast and crew. I create stories that affect and change people. I welcome audience members to enter new worlds to leave changed and open to that change.
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